CODE OF VIRGINIA REMOVING, ALTERING, ETC., SERIAL NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFICATION ON FIREARM (ยง 18.2-311.1) Any person, firm, association or corporation who or which intentionally removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys or obliterates in any manner or way or who or which causes to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed or obliterated in any manner or way the name of the maker, model, manufacturer’s or serial number, or any other mark or identification on any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun or any other firearm shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. HISTORY: 1975, c. 590.