Recent content by beentothev

After 41 years 2 1/2 months my gun arrived back in my hands yesterday. Just wanted to let the folks who offered advice and support know that what to some may seem to be impossible, is often simply because the "possible" requires too much effort. The gun works fine and other than a little...

Just wanted to clarify for you from the above post, that according to the SGS owner's son, these were the forms that they were required to fill out and file with the county/state as of 1/1/1964. Sorry I omitted that. Take care.

UPDATE RE: Copies of Documentation Yesterday received copies from the SGS owner's son that were titled "Merchant's Report of Sale of Dangerous Weapons". The nomenclature on it ID's it as state NOT federal form! On it is listed the expected info, i.e. seller,buyer info, weapon info, date of...

Therefore then it would obviously stand to REASON that if an American goes to court for any issue that was enacted into law before the judge's date of birth we should and can NOT expect the judge or police officials involved to have any knowledge of the laws pertaining to our...

The SGS son phoned me last night to inform me that the last digit of the SN he had given me off of the original sales receipt was in fact NOT a 6 (six) but rather just some type of pen residue that slightly resembled a 6. Therefore I now have a SN that begins with the letter C and has a 6 (six)...

I have re-contacted the sporting goods store owners son and he gratiously has consented to recheck his records and will mail me whatever paperwork he has on file. Says he may have some form of Federal filing slip that became required as of 1964? As for the pic, that is the one I already printed...

One area of puzzlement that I noticed after my last post was WHY does my weapon have 7 (seven) numbers following the letter C??????????????????????????????????? Based on the info provided pertaining to the s&w numbering system here there would appear to be something awry?????????

So then according to the SN's your provided in the most recent post, it was a 66/67 manufacture date. As for the pic if you have one of the exact weapon it would be appreciated and possibly useful. Thanks in advance. Again thanks for all the help with this. After all of these years I...

I'm back! I only assumed that the weapon was made somewhere around the time it was purchased. Could have been an error on my part. According to the original sales receipt the SN is a 7 number series starting with the #8 and preceeded by the letter C. Not having the weapon, I have no idea where...

So endeth this lesson!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have alway preached 2 things to our children:#1- treat everyone that you interact with with empathy, and #2-Give every endeavor you undertake your best effort possible. I have tempered that with the fact that they won't always win, but will in fact seldom...

Please, just factual information re: serial # and/or pic sites. Hold the opinions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Speaking of saving time and energy, maybe if the previous posts were read, it may have been noted that I stated something to the effect that if we "were talking Vegas odds here that...

Thanks perp but according to my original post, the gun was stolen in 1967, and purchased in late 1966, by my brother. And yes I still remember his name LOL. As for jurisdiction requirements concerning firearms registration where he lives, I doubt it would do mucy good. I talked with a local cop...

The whole point of this exercise is simply to be able to leave behind, for my children, mainly my only son, 1 (one) tangible relic from my Vietnam experience! Other than a couple of rolls of undeveloped film, I received nothing in the way of my personal property/gear after being wounded. So I...

Maybe I r dum? The only thing that I thought S&W could possibly do was to tell me the name/location of the distributor for a specific local area/region, and then had that been possible I would have attempted to contact them to see if they could have been of any assistance. I understand that...

OK it seems we are getting away from the original question. As far as my "hypothetically" obtaining the serial number, that is pretty much NOT going to happen. If I had the serial number I would not have been on here seeking help, but rather taking my serial number and info to the police to...