Appreciate The Response On The Pre-ban. It Looks Like This Lower Was Produced Then Pre-ban Possibly Based On Those Serial Numbers. Thanks

I decided to call Bushmaster today and was told by them that they started up a second factory to produce AR15s due to high demand. The new serial numbers were produced last fall at the new production facility. The older L series are still being produced at the original facility. So now you can get a Bushy with either prefix. Nov 26, 2018 Bushmaster Serial Number Lookup Sep 19, 2011 Bushmaster preban numbers are anything LO63000 and under is preban Bushmaster as long as it was assembled into a complete rifle before sept94. Dec 27, 2011 Value of Bushmaster XM15-E2S General Rifles and Shotguns. I work for a company that sells firearms, common Bushmaster Serial Number letters are: BK, BFH, BFI, BFIT, L, and ARA A side note, XM15-E2S was created to circumvent California law that originally made XM15 illegal. They subsequently made all XM15 variants illegal.

PREBAN AR15 INFORMATION RESOURCES | PRE BAN AR 15

PRE BAN AR 15

PRE BAN AR 15 information is very valuable to shooters in states that maintain an ASSAULT WEAPON BAN. While I dont normally advocate borrowing content from other websites I feel this information is invaluable and needs to be protected, duplicated and shared for the greater good of the shooting community.

If anyone has more information and links please post them at the bottom and I will update the list. If you have a lower of from one of the lesser known brands and have managed to verify the date to the serial number please add your info to the comments and I will add it to the master list.

OLYMPIC ARMS

What does my serial number have to do with a PRE BAN AR 15?

Q: What does my serial number mean?

A: Nothing is more frustrating than to know little or nothing about the firearm you own or are about to buy. Use the information in this page to help determine when your Olympic Arms AR 15 was produced. Please read all of the details on this page because there are many questions answered in the following paragraphs.

As many of you already know, on the 7th of June, 2000, Olympic Arms experienced a devastating fire that destroyed our sales offices. In those offices were housed our current as well as archival records with regards to manufacture, acquisition and distribution of firearms. The books that we, as well as all federally licensed firearms dealers are required to keep are commonly known as “Bound Books”, or “A&D” (acquisition & distribution) books.

These books, over 25 years of Olympic Arms history and data, were completely destroyed in that fire. All A& D book records prior to the 7th of June, 2000 are GONE. Period. This is an unfortunate situation that severely limits our ability to provide product information for any and all AR-15 lower receivers and/or complete guns manufactured prior to that date. As a result all that we can provide is what you see below, a date “range” in which your serial number was manufactured.

We CANNOT provide you with the date the serial number was shipped, we CANNOT provide you with information determining whether a particular serial number was a factory assembled firearm, and most importantly, we CANNOT determine whether or not your particular serial number is a legal grandfathered pre-ban firearm.

Many people and organizations have been critical of Olympic Arms for not securing a copy of these records elsewhere, or keeping an electronic file of this data as an emergency back up. If you’d like to read why this decision was made, please read the article in the About Us section titled “Pre-fire Bound Books”. Remember that Olympic Arms fully complied, and still does, with ATF regulations regarding A&D books.

Below you will see a list of serial numbers. At Olympic, we group our serial numbered lowers into “ranges”. If you’ll notice, all the serial number ranges have a letter prefix but one. The initial receivers made by Olympic Arms simply contain a 4 digit serial number, no letter prefix. Each subsequent serial number range (either beginning with 0001, or 1001) will show a 1 or 2 letter prefix.

Additionally, you will see several lines for serial numbers that begin with the same letter(s) prefix. These prefix series are divided by a date range to their right. These date ranges are the beginning and ending dates of the physical paper ledgers in which those numbers were recorded. In other words, the ledger books were not large enough to contain all of the numbers (0001-9999), in one book. For that reason, there is a beginning date and end date for each ledger. That is what you see below.

Match your receiver up with the letter prefixes on the chart below. Each line is separated into 5 columns.

Column 1: The serial number itself (including prefix).

Column 2: The beginning serial number in that book.

Column 3: The beginning date for that book. If there is only one date listed after the serial numbers in column 2 and/or 2, all of those numbers were manufactured on that same day.

Column 4: End date for that book.

Column 5: Comments regarding that range of serial numbers. The comments as listed would apply to all of the serial numbers with the prefix listed to the left.

SN Range		1st Date	End Date	Special Notes
0001	0004	03/14/79	Prototypes
1000	8845	03/14/79	06/04/82	Cut from aluminum bar stock. Most were made for other manufacturers such as Palmetto Armory.
X1001	X2987	07/02/1982	06/01/1983
X2988	X3484	06/02/1983	09/01/1983
X2988	X3484	06/02/1983	09/01/1983
P0001A	P0588A	12/17/1982	07/18/1988	PAWS
Z0001	Z2002	09/08/1983	08/24/1984
Z2003	Z3955	05/29/1984	02/08/1985
Z3956	Z6007	02/14/1985	12/12/1985
Z6008	Z8018	12/17/1985	09/10/1986
Z8019	Z9985	09/15/1986	03/09/1988
Z9986	Z9999	03/09/1988
W1001	W2957	03/09/1988	05/08/1989
V0001	V0716	12/02/1986	10/01/1987	These receivers were manufactured for Bushmaster. While all of these are for BM, there were more.
NAMV1	NAMV100	03/20/1985	08/28/1986	These were limited edition Vietnam War Commemoratives.
USMC1	USMC320	01/21/1986	04/05/1993	Limited Edition US Marine Corp Commemoratives
U1001	U1597	08/18/1987	11/28/1989
F1006	F3000	04/27/1989	08/25/1989
F3001	F5052	08/25/1989	12/14/1989
F5053	F9109	12/14/1989	08/10/1990
F9110	F9999	08/10/1990	10/03/1990
T1001	T2119	10/03/1990	01/08/1991
T2120	T3758	01/08/1991	04/05/1991
T3759	T7480	04/05/1991	01/31/1992
T7481	T9532	01/31/1992	08/12/1992
T9533	T9999	08/13/1992	09/24/1992
AA001	09/24/1992	PROTOTYPE
AA1001	AA2297	09/24/1992	12/23/1992
AA2298	AA2425	12/23/1992	01/04/1992
GG1000	GG1009	02/01/1993	07/05/1993
OA1001D	OA1039D	10/07/1991	10/31/1991
OAD1040	OAD1067	03/16/1992	10/09/1992
OAS1042	OAS1138	03/18/1992	10/13/1992
AC10000	AC10058	02/08/1993
LL0001	LL0267	01/05/1993	01/22/1993
BL1000	BL2784	02/01/1993	05/26/19

Bushmaster Xm15 Serial Numbers