Thus rendering it a problematical rifle to own and a giant pain in the butt should you ever want to sell. If i decided to sell I'd have to ask myself if I was comfortable pitching the story to someone else with no factory provenance or any other supporting evidence. I wouldn't find that too comfortable.
Used gun dealers are no better, as a group, than used car sellers or antique sellers, etc. Lot's of people have no problem lying about something that they are selling, if the lie will move the sale forward.
