A friend in the military tried to register his P-38 with the post MPs and they seized the weapon, saying it was stolen in California in 1977.
His is an AC-44
My question is:
With the amount of P-38s manufactured by different makers, what are the chances that there are two P-38s with the same serial number?
A similar thing happened to a friend once who was trading in a Luger in Houston Texas to upgrade to a nicer one when he was informed that his Luger was a stolen weapon.
As it turned out, the weapon that had been reported stolen had the same serial number as his Luger (if I recall correctly, it was a P-38) but the police agency couldn't figure out who was the manufacturer because it only had wartime codes so they simply entered it in the computer as "German 9mm".
It is also possible that any letters in the serial numbers might have been left off.
I advised him to have the MPs get a copy of the original police report from California to see if there are any other identifiers on the weapon that was reported stolen.
Any helpful information would be appreciated.
His is an AC-44
My question is:
With the amount of P-38s manufactured by different makers, what are the chances that there are two P-38s with the same serial number?
A similar thing happened to a friend once who was trading in a Luger in Houston Texas to upgrade to a nicer one when he was informed that his Luger was a stolen weapon.
As it turned out, the weapon that had been reported stolen had the same serial number as his Luger (if I recall correctly, it was a P-38) but the police agency couldn't figure out who was the manufacturer because it only had wartime codes so they simply entered it in the computer as "German 9mm".
It is also possible that any letters in the serial numbers might have been left off.
I advised him to have the MPs get a copy of the original police report from California to see if there are any other identifiers on the weapon that was reported stolen.
Any helpful information would be appreciated.
)is all a simple matter of recording a firearm model and serial number.
as there will be repeats with the SpreeWerke unless the letter is recorded as a prefix or suffix.....wait until we get into the c block of AC 45 and start seeing the factory mis-matched.....which number do I use question
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