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  "heading": "Identification with number or other mark; obliteration or alteration of number or mark",
  "text": "A. Each manufacturer, importer, and dealer in any firearm shall identify it with a number or other identification mark approved by the department and shall mark or stamp or otherwise place the number or mark thereon in a manner approved by the department.\n\nB. No one shall obliterate, remove, change, or alter this number or mark.",
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