It looks a little like something a local brain convinced my father and practically all the men in our little town who owned guns to do. He said to fight crime and burglaries (we have never had one in that little farming village before then or since) they needed to let him take his Dremel tool and etch their social security numbers on the gun, either the trigger guard or better yet the receiver. Soooo, I just happen to have a Model 12 with my father's SSAN on the trigger guard. My brother has our granddad's Ithaca with his SSAN on the receiver. By the way, the idiot who convinced them to do this was not a hunter, did not own a gun, had never fired a gun, and truth be known probably was afraid of them. But, he was a genuine college graduate from a big university and obviously smarter than anyone else around town since few, if any, had ever been to college. I love smart people like him. (I dont even have to point out the sarcasm in my last statement do I???)