Well that answers your question.

It has always been a shame that guns end up getting marked up one way or another when traveling from country to country. But, the law is the law I suppose.

If anything, it is at least documentation of it's travels.

She said that importers have to give the ATF their import stamp design. ATF will either approve it..or reject it...Theirs is so small that it could be easily removed. I guess its better than the ATF requiring BIG letters on the receivers..