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How to identify Gun by serial number?

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If serial number information has been published, you can search through it.

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Can you identify gun by its serial number?
In most cases, if you give me only a serial number, and no info on make, model, caliber, then no. A serial number is not unque, or it would be 20 numbers long.
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