Longbranch TP Sniper. Comments anyone?

[stencollector]

Anytime one sees file or sanding marks in the area of the serial number on a LB receiver, one must suspect that the serial is non-original.

To my knowledge, that type of renumbering was not done in the Cdn ordnance branch. By the book, if a rifle was to be renumbered or a receiver salvaged and recycled, the serial number would be barred out (not obliterated) and the new serial number placed nearby. By the book, if the serial number on a weapon showed signs of tampering, the weapon would be back loaded to third line for investigation.

I have seen examples of various rifles and smgC1s with the proper barring out of the numbers as I have described above. One exception to this would be the thousand or so Cno7 receivers that had the serials scrubbed and placed in stock after being salvaged from Cno7 rifles.

Almost surprising that someone would go to all the trouble of trying to fake up a TP rifle, and not take the time to take a rotary file to the blob of weld on the inside of the wrist.