Removing a firearm's serial number or possessing a firearm with a removed serial number
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Chambliss v. State (2001)
Most recently applied in Matthew James Cole v. State of Indiana (February 2017)
As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.32
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 18. (a) No person shall:
(1) remove, obliterate, or alter the importer or manufacturer's serial number on any firearm; or
(2) possess any firearm on which the importer or manufacturer's serial number has been removed, obliterated, or altered.
(b) A person who knowingly or intentionally violates this section commits a Level 5 felony.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.