Browning Citori Serial Number Search (2024)

FAQs

How old is my Browning Citori shotgun? ›

NTC Connect provides a secure web-based application through which authorized NTC personnel can send a query by serial number only against an FFL's electronic firearm disposition records and retrieve the corresponding disposition data (if applicable). The data remains the property of the FFL and is not housed at ATF.

The Browning Citori was introduced in 1973 as a more affordable version of the highly successful Browning Superposed.

To find the year of proof of your (Post 1975) Browning or Miroku shotgun you'll need to find the Serial Number. On most over and under shotguns this should be situated under the top lever… and on Semi-Autos somewhere on the receiver… In the Serial number there are two letters together – This is your date code.

The 1st three numbers of your serial number will always provide your manufacture date. The 1st number is the YEAR of manufacture; the 2nd & 3rd numbers indicate the MONTH of manufacture. Please see the detailed explanation and examples provided below.

Most individual manufacturers habitually put serial numbers on the weapons they produce. Such numbers can be used to ascertain the name of the manufacture, place and date of manufacture.

ATF's National Tracing Center is authorized to trace firearms by the Gun Control Act of 1968. ATF's National Tracing Center is only authorized to trace a firearm for a law enforcement agency involved in a bona fide criminal investigation.

SHOTGUNS AND RIFLES

Many of the old top-break shotguns have the serial number located on the inside portion of the frame as well as the barrel lug. Many of these also have a number on the forearm of the stock.

Unless your state has an actual registry, all that info stays with the dealer you bought it from. There is no federal registration for guns. A 4473 form is not registration.

The Grade I model has a gloss blued steel receiver and metal work with gold enhancement and is surrounded by smooth, satin finish Grade I walnut. The Grade II differentiates itself with a handsome silver nitride finish on the steel receiver and metal work and satin finish Grade II/III walnut.

What are the grade levels of Browning Citori? ›

Grades were I, III, V, and VI. A 20-gauge model was made with false sideplates.

Most Browning guns were made in Belgium by Fabrique Nationale (FN) until the mid 1970s when some production was shifted to Miroku in Japan. Today's Browning firearms are made in either Belgium, Portugal, Japan or in the United States.

While shotguns of the muzzleloader and musket types were originally imported to America from England and other European countries, it was an American—Daniel Myron Lefever—who is credited with having invented the first hammerless shotgun in 1878.

History of the Browning Auto 5

FN produced the A5 in Belgium until 1975, with a brief break during World War II when production shifted to Remington from 1940-46, and lastly to Miroku in Japan starting in 1975 until the traditional A5 ceased production in 1999.