Walk like an Egyptian....

[smle-man]

I agree and good catch on the right two left reading of the numbers.
it's funny because not too long ago I was at my favorite home based FFL gun dealer,
" San Jose gun trader "
(a vendor here on Calguns)
and he had some retired
ex- law enforcement Remington 870 pump shotguns ( at an amazingly low price) that were marked in the same two digit format, in the same location. I believe his we're marked both in red and some in white color.
all around the world people find it easier to track firearms by those painted numbers than to use the serial numbers.

personally I think it made those shotguns look so much better/tougher and the same goes for your Hakim.

They are called rack numbers and when the unit armorer counts his assigned weapons to make sure they are all where they belong he can see that the assigned weapon is in its corresponding slot in the weapons rack. If there is a gap at slot 32 for instance the armorer knows that Hakim rifle 32 is on the loose.

[knucklehead0202]

2 hakims and me without even one nice rifles, enjoy them. i'll be here, crying...