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While poking around the interwebs looking for something else, I stumbled onto this public firearms registration for Malindi, Kenya dated 31 March 1908
from the OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF KENYA, dated 15 May 1908

http://books.google.com/books?id=6mrFmDh...der&f=false

Like a game of Enfield Bingo, check your serial numbers folks.

Starting with the fourth and fifth entries:

a .303 Sporting Rifle BS& Co and a .303 Lee Metford rifle, serialed 4/1073 and 4/1131, to Abdulla B. Mohamed

a .303 Enfield carbine BS&A Co, serialed 6899 to F. C. Kyle

.303 sporting rifle, serialed 274445, and a .303 military rifle 41506 to BM Davis

and last, a .304(!obvious typo) BS&A Co. sporting rifle - with no damn serial number, how the hell do you have a registry w/o a serial number? - to C.B.H. Kinahan

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I went digging further, and found a previous issue (01May1907) to see if they had registrations there (yup) and then do some random sampling.

http://books.google.com/books?id=HkToZI7...fle&f=false

First up, some tax receipts on page 136

.303 Lee Speed 9/890 to G. Donovitch
.303 Lee Speed A 460 to S. Ellis
.303 Lee Speed 4/498 to S. Ellis
.303 Lee Speed (no serial number, " marks a typo?) to E.C.Brown
.303 rifle to 5/727 to J.F.Dallas
.303 magazine 5/456 rifle to J.J. Gouws

.303 Lee Metford P97 9/2778 is registered twice to W.M Greiss

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Considering that the registrations were probably hand-written and sent in from all over Kenya, one can expect errors and omissions in nomenclature.

That's enough for tonight, but obviously, more research is required. I'd ask that anyone else following my trail of breadcrumbs post their findings here.