US Military Firearm Serialization

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

You are correct. No letters or numbers anywhere. This link has a bit of history about them.

FP-45 Liberator - Wikipedia

I had two, bought them in 1986 for $800 each. Decided to shoot one to see how it felt. Stove piped bullets. On shot 18 all the spot welds broke. I had a bags of parts. Sold the bag for $400 and have left this one alone since.

[browningautorifle]

On shot 18 all the spot welds broke.

Guess they were only intended as a one shot deal, more or less...

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

They came with ten rounds up the grip. I'm guessing that was considered the max.

[usabaker]

I'll bet a bunch went to landfill because the family thought they were old toys. I would love to have one of those, never seen one before.

[breakeyp]

Civil war long guns generally did not have serial numbers (I say it that way for whoever comes up with an exception) Many longguns imported from Europe did not have serial numbers either. This one of the reasons guns are found with names and carvings, so that soldiers could identify their favorite musket.

[Brian Dick]

Lots of different US made sporting firearms produced prior to 1968 are devoid of serial numbers. Especially the brand name rifles and shotguns sold under store brand names like Sears, Western Auto, Montgomery Ward, etc.. Many were produced by companies like Savage, Mossberg, Marlin and others.

[fjruple]

Serialization numbering of US military firearms purpose was really two fold. First is local property accountability control, these generally down to the local commander. It was up to the local unit commander to further assign accountablity if he wished. If a soldier "lost" his weapon through neglect (sold revolver for whiskey), the commander could bring him a statement of charges to replace the revolver out of his pay. In wartime weapons and equipment could be written off if lost in combat, which a lot of commanders did. The second reason is being to identify weapons if a problem takes place and requires up-grade or re-build.

[usabaker]

You are correct. No letters or numbers anywhere. This link has a bit of history about them.

FP-45 Liberator - Wikipedia.

I found a bunch of blueprints/drawing for the Liberator. Could not figure out how to post it to the forum but here is a link to it on my Blog;

https://usabaker.files.wordpress.com...rpistoldrw.pdf

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I have those. Picked them up five or six years ago. Add to the total package for me.