Originally Posted by
HCM
Can’t speak to the armorer only disassembly, but the serialized barrel is a court /ballistics/ forensics thing.
It could also be an integrity thing.
I mean, an officer would never report their barrel (only the barrel) stolen in a residential burglary after shots were fired at a gentleman’s club where said officer was getting their groove on.
But if such a situation had occurred, theoretically, a smarter officer issued a duty pistol without a serialized barrel, might buy a new barrel and throw their issued, non serialized barrel in the river.
But that would never happen.