And in some cases, firearms may be stored for a length of time before they are shipped.įor details on your specific serial number you may contact our Service Department: 33įor serial numbers manufactured prior to our electronic records, or for an official letter confirming the details on your firearm please download and mail in the Request for Letter of Authenticity form.Ĭopyright © 2016 by Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. Also, within a model family the same serial number prefix may be used to produce a variety of different models, all in the same block of serial numbers. There are occasions when blocks of serial numbers have been manufactured out of sequence, sometimes years later. Ruger does not necessarily produce firearms in serial number order. It can be used to determine the approximate year your Ruger firearm was It is not necessarily the very first serial number shipped, but This number should be used as a point of reference The above chart shows the approximate first serial number shipped for Knox, KY, dated 1941, a spare recoil spring and guide, and a buttstock oiler.(manufactured from 1982 to 2005) Caliber: 22 LR
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Army instruction manual as issued by the Armor School, Ft. It includes four 30 round stick magazines (two US Cartridge Co and 2 Seymour), a brass cleaning rod, a reproduction canvas sling, a small canvas parts bag, canvas muzzle cover, cleaning brush, a U.S. This very unusual weapon has an all walnut buttstock, horizontal foregrip and pistol grip. The exact cause of the lack of markings is unknown such absences are sometimes seen on items intended purely for internal use, like tool room models or test items, and sometimes attributed to sticky-fingered employees liberating company stock (aka a "lunch box gun") for later home assembly. that was assembled with some of the last wartime production parts and new production commercial parts into a commercial Model 1928 type SMG. We surmise that this may have been one of the late last WWII Bridgeport receiver manufactured at the end of the war that was eventually acquired by the Auto-Ordnance Corp in West Hurley N.Y. The "Tommy Gun" marking is seen in limited quantities, and suspected as being a way to keep competing manufacturers from treating the popular "Tommy Gun" name for the Thompson as a generic term by physically including the name on some of their output, a much stronger defense could be made of their branding. Government inspection markings, and the top is stamped with the "Bullet" Logo/Trademark of the Thompson Company along with "TOMMY GUN" along the edge of the receiver, both indicative of a commercial receiver. When registered the Class III/NFA paper work instead just used the last patent date "1817321" as the serial number. 45 AUTOMATIC CARTRIDGE" and on the left side with the standard "AUTO-ORDNANCE CORPORATION/BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT U.S.A.", and six lines of various patent dates on the right side. Interestingly it is also not marked on the side of the receiver with any model number, instead it is just marked: "THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN/CALIBER. Every day, new entries are transmitted automatically as well as manually. Utilizing this database, you can verify before or after purchasing an item if said object has been marked as missing or stolen. Additionally there is no serial number on the rear, underside area of the trigger housing. Check the serial number of your item: Have it Back incorporates nearly all freely available serial numbers. This example is configured as a Model 1928 Thompson with the late features of the parkerized metal finish with a horizontal forend, that still retains the earlier Lyman adjustable rear sight, finned barrel with the Cutts marked compensator, and a detachable buttstock. This is a very unique example of a late commercial manufacture fully automatic Class III/NFA Model 1928 Thompson Submachine Gun manufactured by the Auto-Ordnance Corporation of Bridgeport Conn.
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