I often sit and ponder just how you would give a rifle away without a serial number. It would open up an absolute pandoras box of mischief.

That would mean, in effect, that anyone could 'liberate' an unnumbered rifle - or even TEN rifles, mark one - or even ten - up and......... and........ Then in 50 years time, 10 totally unaccountable rifles slowly turn up. Sorry to sound a bit cynical and all that but without supporting documentation (and SURELY there MUST be some.......), I could have Montgomery's .38 revolver in an hour