Originally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: RTLOF18918B Does anyone know when serial numbers were required to be stamped on firearms?
I have a Springfield 86C .22 RF rifle that has no serial number on it and I have looked everywhere on this rifle including removing the stock. It was handed down to me from my grandmother who got it from her father at the age of 9. That would be in 1930 +/- a year or so. She is still with us. She told me that he bought it from someone in the Oklahoma oil fields years before that. The rifle shoots lights out and is still one of my favorites to shoot. I'm trying to find a value on it.( It is not going anywhere). I'm just trying to find some history on it.
Thanks,
Tony
I believe it was 1964, in the Johnson, "1964 Gun Control Act." - prior to that, 22s didn't need to be numbered and only the good ones were numbered.
Almost right. You are seldom mistaken. Cat.
It was 1968. The gun Control Act of 1968.
I have a High Standard "Riot 20-6" that was manufactured W/O a serial #. I did at one time own a Colt .22 semi-auto (I think it was manufactured by Glenfield) that was also manufactured W/O a serial #.
I remember when the Gun Control Act of 1968 went in effect. It was December of '68. Just a couple of days after it passed I walked into Carolina Hardware in Sumter, SC to buy a Ruger Bearcat. I had been saving my nickles and dimes for quite a while. When I tried to buy it. I was told my dad would have to come in to buy it. Because of the new gun control act one had to be 21 to buy a handgun. I was so disappointed I never went back. It was one of those things I wanted to do on my own.
As a side note the The Omnibus Crime Act of 1934 was the first Federal law that dealt with firearms at all.
IIRC it made it illegal for mobsters to have machine guns.
