Glock serial number.

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Just a quick question for all you Glock folks. Are the serial numbers for the frame, slide and barrel all supposed to match?. I just bought a Glock in great shape on the EE and just now noticed that the numbers are not the same. What's up with that?
 
Manufacture Match

All firearms manufactured in Europe are to bear the same serial numbers on the Barrel / Slide / Receiver. If not, there has been a switch. Ensure the Receiver Serial Number is the registered number.
 
redryder said:
The barrel and slide match, the frame is completely different. I am starting to feel a little pissed.
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The serial number on the frame needs to match the serial number on your paperwork for this transfer... ;)

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NAA.
 
Possibly the last owner had a cracked frame that was deregistered and replaced with another (Glock frames are cheap, money wise). When mine was cracked, it only cost me something like $75 to get a replacement with all parts salvaged and used the original slide and barrel. As long as the gun shows no damage and shoots fine, don't worry, nothing all that unusual with tupperware guns :)
 
Aside from some possible deceit it isn't a big deal. Glocks have relatively loose tolerances I'd be surprised if yours didn't run just as well as any other.
 
like a vintage car with non matching engine and such, somewhere something got swapped...

side note, cant find anything like my serial number, most sites show 2 letters but my first gen has 1 letter and then followed by 2 zeros and then 2 numbers.... that normal? extremely low with 2 front zeros?
 
NAA said:
The serial number on the frame needs to match the serial number on your paperwork for this transfer... ;)

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NAA.
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Does it? I'm not sure. If this was a case of a frame that got swapped out, in theory the original ser# which is on the slide and barrel can still count, that was the manufactured ser# for the gun. The US requires it on the frame but I don't think Canada does. Years ago when I worked at the Trilliam range we had a club Glock that was one of the earliest one in the country, it didn't have the ser# on the frame at all, only the slide and barrel like the European models, it was the US that required them to put the little stamped metal insert on the frame with the ser#. On that particular gun the slide cracked after awhile and was replaced with a new one that just had a part number on it and the only ser# left on the gun was the barrel, but I'm pretty sure that still met our laws (though I wonder what happens if the barrel needs to be replaced)
 
jackrabbit000 said:
Only problem now without matching serial numbers is trying to sell it.
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Ya, well the guy that sold it to me had no problem selling it. Of course he never disclosed that it had been to a gunsmith and now has mismatched numbers. Maybe a small part or something internal replaced I could manage, but not Frame to Slide or Barrel.
We have talked and he says he will reimburse me and transfer will go back to him. We'll see.
 
PH Racing said:
Does it? I'm not sure. If this was a case of a frame that got swapped out, in theory the original ser# which is on the slide and barrel can still count, that was the manufactured ser# for the gun. The US requires it on the frame but I don't think Canada does. Years ago when I worked at the Trilliam range we had a club Glock that was one of the earliest one in the country, it didn't have the ser# on the frame at all, only the slide and barrel like the European models, it was the US that required them to put the little stamped metal insert on the frame with the ser#. On that particular gun the slide cracked after awhile and was replaced with a new one that just had a part number on it and the only ser# left on the gun was the barrel, but I'm pretty sure that still met our laws (though I wonder what happens if the barrel needs to be replaced)
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The frame is the only part of the gun that is "a gun", and it is the registered part. You can swap slides all you want as those serial numbers have no effect on the registration. It is the frame that is the registered serial number.
 
mlehtovaara said:
The frame is the only part of the gun that is "a gun", and it is the registered part. You can swap slides all you want as those serial numbers have no effect on the registration. It is the frame that is the registered serial number.
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This is correct. I am getting a 22LR conversion kit for mine. :D
The serial numbers on my Glock matches. I am sure that the serial numbers on the conversion kit will different.
 
B said:
Aside from some possible deceit it isn't a big deal. Glocks have relatively loose tolerances I'd be surprised if yours didn't run just as well as any other.
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While it should still work without a problem... I'd be a little irritated and would want my money back.

It's a bit like ordering a Guinness and getting served a Budweiser... Yes, it's still beer... but it's not what you paid for.
 
redryder said:
Ya, well the guy that sold it to me had no problem selling it. Of course he never disclosed that it had been to a gunsmith and now has mismatched numbers. Maybe a small part or something internal replaced I could manage, but not Frame to Slide or Barrel.
We have talked and he says he will reimburse me and transfer will go back to him. We'll see.
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I'd take his offer if I were you. It's not like you can't buy a Glock anywhere.
 
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