Thread: no serial numbers

Originally Posted by No good names left

I used to engrave handgun frames on a cnc mill after they were imported into OZ as the importer needed to engrave deep and wanted neat as it was going to be visible. The NZ Police may want something heavier than hand engraving which would leave you with stamping or machine engraving.

No idea what you're going to do Barry unless you want to plug the muzzles.

If the Police want that, and at this stage I would bet nothing has been formulated/clarified that would leave hundreds, no thousands of firearms in NZ needing their serial numbers "touched" up due to not being "deep" enough, or worn due to corrosion.
Plus numbers punched or pneumaticaly engraved even though removed by crims for example can still show up under xray so desired outcome achieved.

And the subject of a deactivated firearm in NZ is that virtually no such thing exists and in the eyes of the police they are still firearms. Although having said that @gundoc posted something way back around 2018 stating the steps (machining etc) required to create such a firearm. The steps were quite extensive.