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·First post here, I tried searching for this question but couldn't find anything that was relevant. Hopefully I can get some answers from you experts about my situation...so here it goes;
I'm selling my very first HK that I bought, it's a AB date HK USP45 full size, variant 1. I purchased it from my friend, so I'm the second official owner of this fine handgun.
I'm having problems selling it though. The slide and the barrel both have the same serial numbers, however, the frame has a different number. What happened was that one of the hot rounds my friend shot off blew up and damaged the old frame. He had it sent in to HK and got a brand new one back...with a different, much higher serial number. This happened a while back.
I was in the process of selling it to a local Sheriff who planned to carry it as his carry weapon, but unfortunately his department wouldn't allow a mismatched weapon to be registered within his department.
We didn't know about the different serial numbers until the dealer was DROSing it...I cannot believe I was completely oblivious to the mismatching numbers the entire two years I owned it. I then proceeded to ask my friend about the numbers and he told me the story behind it which is written above.
My question would be....how would it affect this gun? I now know that it's going to be hard to sell, but which numbers would a dealer register it by?
Has anyone had this happen before?
Sorry for such a long post, but I couldn't find a shorter way to describe the entirety of this problem.
BTW; when I DROSed it the first time around, it went through without any problems whatsoever...I'm going to give that shop a call to see which number they ran with.
I'm selling my very first HK that I bought, it's a AB date HK USP45 full size, variant 1. I purchased it from my friend, so I'm the second official owner of this fine handgun.
I'm having problems selling it though. The slide and the barrel both have the same serial numbers, however, the frame has a different number. What happened was that one of the hot rounds my friend shot off blew up and damaged the old frame. He had it sent in to HK and got a brand new one back...with a different, much higher serial number. This happened a while back.
I was in the process of selling it to a local Sheriff who planned to carry it as his carry weapon, but unfortunately his department wouldn't allow a mismatched weapon to be registered within his department.
We didn't know about the different serial numbers until the dealer was DROSing it...I cannot believe I was completely oblivious to the mismatching numbers the entire two years I owned it. I then proceeded to ask my friend about the numbers and he told me the story behind it which is written above.
My question would be....how would it affect this gun? I now know that it's going to be hard to sell, but which numbers would a dealer register it by?
Has anyone had this happen before?
Sorry for such a long post, but I couldn't find a shorter way to describe the entirety of this problem.
BTW; when I DROSed it the first time around, it went through without any problems whatsoever...I'm going to give that shop a call to see which number they ran with.