Is this a microchip on my 642?

[mousegunfan]

I took off the grips and see this. It's raised. You can feel the roughness.

 

[Quantavious G]

have someone with a I phone try scanning it

 

[not new guy]

Not a microchip. Looks like a QR code.

 

[Soundwave]

How you activate the warranty?

 

[strangenh]

datamatrix code

[)>{RS}06{GS}17V55358{GS}1P215800000{GS}SDNM3202{RS}{EOT}

Probably contains all you covered up and more.

 

[WanMan99]

looks like a laser etched QR code.

 

[Jason m]

Man I would have the house covered in aluminum foil by now if I saw that on my gun lol.

 

[Picton]

PLACE THE GUN INTO A FARADAY BAG. TOSS THE BAG INTO A DUMPSTER. SCORCH OFF YOUR FINGERPRINTS. WALK AWAY AND CHANGE YOUR NAME.






Nah. Probably just a tracking code they used at the factory. Like the assembly numbers.

 

[Rocky Mosasaurus]

That’s probably a code you can scan with your smart phone to open up a users manual etc.

 

[CRSIII]

You have been chosen

 

[Reptile]

Alien ID chip...

Same at the one implanted in your neck.

 

[mousegunfan]

Could this be a California thing? I wonder if the firing pin is marked.

 

[Davidk]

code, probably for tracking during the manufacturing process

 

[Boghog1]

Looks like a decepticon symbol

 

[LuvDog]

manufacturing code. It can be scanned to determine S/N, origin, date, etc

 

[Sweeney]

If you have the S&W app scan this QR code and you'll be able to fire the gun remotely.

 

[mousegunfan]

manufacturing code. It can be scanned to determine S/N, origin, date, etc

Why the raised etching if all it needs to do is make it out of S&W to the distributor and not last that long?

 

[bondsman333]

Why the raised etching if all it needs to do is make it out of S&W to the distributor and not last that long?

I can think of a few reasons.

1 is if you returned it for warranty repair they would know everything they need to.
2 is a 'backup/second' serial number that the vast majority of folks wouldn't know about. In case the first one was destroyed.
3 is tracking during manufacturing. Perhaps before it is serialized. It's a lot easier for a computer to read a code like this than an engraved serial number.

 

[whatluck]

sorry bro your gun is having a herpes outbreak. don't touch your junk without washing your hands first. treat it with abreva, put the pink grips back on, and put it back in your wife's purse where it belongs

 

[whacko]

I took off the grips and see this. It's raised. You can feel the roughness.

Use your phone to scan it.....it will probably bring you to a website for warranty info or owners manual info.

QR code - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Racenet]

Mask up! You can never be too safe.

/s

 

[Deleted member 67409]

I can think of a few reasons.

1 is if you returned it for warranty repair they would know everything they need to.
2 is a 'backup/second' serial number that the vast majority of folks wouldn't know about. In case the first one was destroyed.
3 is tracking during manufacturing. Perhaps before it is serialized. It's a lot easier for a computer to read a code like this than an engraved serial number.

The last thing that happens to a "firearm" during production is that its serialized. Until then, the gun has no serial number. QR codes serve an inventory control purpose. S&W likely doesn't use the gun's bound-book serial number, anyways, for internal purposes - hence the QR code. S&W makes thousands of guns per month, imagine having to have employees type in seven, eight, nine, ten digit long serial numbers all day for internal tracking... or just beep a QR code. The QR code is more efficient.

 

[Snora]

Not sure if OP is serious.

 

[whacko]

The last thing that happens to a "firearm" during production is that its serialized. Until then, the gun has no serial number. QR codes serve an inventory control purpose. S&W likely doesn't use the gun's bound-book serial number, anyways, for internal purposes - hence the QR code. S&W makes thousands of guns per month, imagine having to have employees type in seven, eight, nine, ten digit long serial numbers all day for internal tracking... or just beep a QR code. The QR code is more efficient.

The Army started using qr codes in the arms room awhile ago. Weapons and sensitive items are issued out with a scanner......Scan the code on the rifle.....scan the code on the Soldiers ID card......hit enter on the laptop. You just issued a weapon. Way faster than the sign in/out roster.

 

[AHM]

datamatrix code

[)>{RS}06{GS}17V55358{GS}1P215800000{GS}SDNM3202{RS}{EOT}

Probably contains all you covered up and more.

@strangenh delivers.

PLACE THE GUN INTO A FARADAY BAG. TOSS THE BAG INTO A DUMPSTER. SCORCH STORCH OFF YOUR FINGERPRINTS. WALK AWAY AND CHANGE YOUR NAME.

F that noise.
Don't settle for half measures.

Nah. Probably just a tracking code they used at the factory. Like the assembly numbers.

Holding out for reports of blinking blue lights in pine trees.

 

[ISOTOX]

Man I would have the house covered in aluminum foil by now if I saw that on my gun lol.