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Covered SN illegal?

marshaul

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inbox485 wrote:
Wangmuf wrote:
I'm thinking about getting a Crimson Trace laser for my M&P .40, but it covers the only serial number on the pistol. Just curious if this violates any laws I haven't been able to find. The serial number isn't scratched out or illegible.


http://www.crimsontrace.com/Home/Products/SmithWesson/LG660/tabid/245/Default.aspx

The SN plate is right under the laser.

It is in CA (what's not these days). But there are exceptions for incidental covering authorized or intended by the manufacture. So while a laser sight would be fine, a strip of tape over the SN for example would not.
Cite?
 

flintlock tom

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marshaul wrote:
inbox485 wrote:
Wangmuf wrote:
I'm thinking about getting a Crimson Trace laser for my M&P .40, but it covers the only serial number on the pistol. Just curious if this violates any laws I haven't been able to find. The serial number isn't scratched out or illegible.


http://www.crimsontrace.com/Home/Products/SmithWesson/LG660/tabid/245/Default.aspx

The SN plate is right under the laser.

It is in CA (what's not these days). But there are exceptions for incidental covering authorized or intended by the manufacture. So while a laser sight would be fine, a strip of tape over the SN for example would not.
Cite?

CA PC 537e.

537e. (a) Any person who knowingly buys, sells, receives, disposes
of, conceals, or has in his or her possession any personal property
from which the manufacturer's serial number, identification number,
electronic serial number, or any other distinguishing number or
identification mark has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or
destroyed, is guilty of a public offense...

...(c) This section does not apply to those cases or instances where
any of the changes or alterations enumerated in subdivision (a) have
been customarily made or done as an established practice in the
ordinary and regular conduct of business, by the original
manufacturer, or by his or her duly appointed direct representative,
or under specific authorization from the original manufacturer.
 
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