They offer a service that is for the older Colt products, but IIRC, will also apply to newer products as well.Ive been lettering SAAs and other Colts with them for decades.All ARs numbers before then started with SP (for Sporter) XXXXXX, now its different.
Dont know if they have different blocks for different models or what. Colt Ar15 A2 Manufacture Dates Serial Number SP 248XXXColt Ar15 A2 Manufacture Dates Serial Number SPMy marked HBAR AR-15A2, bought in 90, has serial number SP 248XXX. Lower has standard pins, no mag release fence and no sear block. We welcome everyone from the seasoned veteran to people who have absolutely no experience with the AR platform. So come on in and join the premier AR15 Forum on the internet. If there is only one date listed after the serial numbers in column 2 andor 2, all of those numbers were manufactured on that same day. While I dont normally advocate borrowing content from other websites I feel this information is invaluable and needs to be protected, duplicated and shared for the greater good of the shooting community. If you have a lower of from one of the lesser known brands and have managed to verify the date to the serial number please add your info to the comments and I will add it to the master list. OLYMPIC ARMS What does my serial number have to do with a PRE BAN AR 15 Q: What does my serial number mean A: Nothing is more frustrating than to know little or nothing about the firearm you own or are about to buy. Use the information in this page to help determine when your Olympic Arms AR 15 was produced. Please read all of the details on this page because there are many questions answered in the following paragraphs. As many of you already know, on the 7th of June, 2000, Olympic Arms experienced a devastating fire that destroyed our sales offices. In those offices were housed our current as well as archival records with regards to manufacture, acquisition and distribution of firearms. The books that we, as well as all federally licensed firearms dealers are required to keep are commonly known as Bound Books, or AD (acquisition distribution) books. These books, over 25 years of Olympic Arms history and data, were completely destroyed in that fire. All A D book records prior to the 7th of June, 2000 are GONE. Period. This is an unfortunate situation that severely limits our ability to provide product information for any and all AR-15 lower receivers andor complete guns manufactured prior to that date. As a result all that we can provide is what you see below, a date range in which your serial number was manufactured. We CANNOT provide you with the date the serial number was shipped, we CANNOT provide you with information determining whether a particular serial number was a factory assembled firearm, and most importantly, we CANNOT determine whether or not your particular serial number is a legal grandfathered pre-ban firearm. Many people and organizations have been critical of Olympic Arms for not securing a copy of these records elsewhere, or keeping an electronic file of this data as an emergency back up. If youd like to read why this decision was made, please read the article in the About Us section titled Pre-fire Bound Books. Remember that Olympic Arms fully complied, and still does, with ATF regulations regarding AD books. If youll notice, all the serial number ranges have a letter prefix but one. The initial receivers made by Olympic Arms simply contain a 4 digit serial number, no letter prefix. Each subsequent serial number range (either beginning with 0001, or 1001) will show a 1 or 2 letter prefix. Additionally, you will see several lines for serial numbers that begin with the same letter(s) prefix. Colt Ar15 A2 Manufacture Dates Series Are DividedThese prefix series are divided by a date range to their right. These date ranges are the beginning and ending dates of the physical paper ledgers in which those numbers were recorded. In other words, the ledger books were not large enough to contain all of the numbers (0001-9999), in one book. For that reason, there is a beginning date and end date for each ledger. Match your receiver up with the letter prefixes on the chart below.
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