I can assure you the dealer would not have faked the rifle. I know the guy well and he would not do that. That being said, nobody has shown proof this rifle was in a pallet shipment. It's anecdotal at best. Even the registry didn't exist when those pallets came in so there likely IS no documentation.

The dealer goes to gunshows and shops and buys inventory regularly and after millions of transactions, his memory is not THAT good.

Now as for metal stamps over blue or parkerizing - how many people here have stamped rifles that were blue or parked already? I know I have. Quite regularly, in fact, because I'm a part time machinst and gun owners have often brought me their unserialized guns to be stamped in compliance with the stoopid Canadianicon registry laws. I've stamped hundreds. Unless the stamps are of low quality and burred up, there IS no finish disturbed from stamping the metal. It is displaced, but not abraded. Parkerizing is either a zinc or manganese phosphate that adheres chemically to the surface of the gun and like blueing it does not flake off when stamped.