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I just receive this email from on point firearms and although they make light of the situation it concerns me that this could ever happened and then to be shipped out to retail location is almost unbelievable.
I've been in the gun business for eight years now. There's a lot of paperwork and government oversight involved when you're in this industry, so an attention to detail is a prerequisite. You've got to be on point, right? Once in a blue moon, something hilarious comes across my desk. It happened again last Friday afternoon, so I thought I'd share the story. [click here for all the pics ]
With our high volume, I rarely have the time to inspect every gun that comes through our shop before it ships out. However, for some reason I gave this little Kahr MK40 a double take on Friday. Hold the phone! Stop the presses! Kuwait a minute! At first glance it was missing its grips, but upon further inspection, it was missing a whole lot more! In fact, the MK40 had no internal parts whatsoever! No trigger, no slide lock, no springs… nothing. Zip, zilch, nada.
Our supplier overnighted a replacement unit, so the client only had to wait an extra day for delivery, which was good. Before you get worried about your next gun purchase, please realize this is an atypical situation-- a real statistical outlier-- a real fly in the ointment. I can count on one hand the times these sort of shenanigans have taken place.
In recent years, it's happened a few times with Sig Sauer: wrong trigger groups installed on P229s and poor frame-to-slide fit on the early GSRs when they were still "McLearning" how to make 1911s. Most recently, a Glock 19 came to our shop with two different serial numbers. The barrel and slide matched, but the frame didn't. Somewhere along the assembly line, a couple of guns switched places. The results were hilarious. ABC is planning a new comedy series about it called "Glock Swap."
I apologize for the dry humor, but it's a rainy Tuesday morning and this is the best I could come up with. Better stuff later in the week, my friends… I promise. In the meantime, please enjoy the pics and have yourself a laugh. I thought it was a hoot. [click here for all the pics ]
With our high volume, I rarely have the time to inspect every gun that comes through our shop before it ships out. However, for some reason I gave this little Kahr MK40 a double take on Friday. Hold the phone! Stop the presses! Kuwait a minute! At first glance it was missing its grips, but upon further inspection, it was missing a whole lot more! In fact, the MK40 had no internal parts whatsoever! No trigger, no slide lock, no springs… nothing. Zip, zilch, nada.
Our supplier overnighted a replacement unit, so the client only had to wait an extra day for delivery, which was good. Before you get worried about your next gun purchase, please realize this is an atypical situation-- a real statistical outlier-- a real fly in the ointment. I can count on one hand the times these sort of shenanigans have taken place.
In recent years, it's happened a few times with Sig Sauer: wrong trigger groups installed on P229s and poor frame-to-slide fit on the early GSRs when they were still "McLearning" how to make 1911s. Most recently, a Glock 19 came to our shop with two different serial numbers. The barrel and slide matched, but the frame didn't. Somewhere along the assembly line, a couple of guns switched places. The results were hilarious. ABC is planning a new comedy series about it called "Glock Swap."
I apologize for the dry humor, but it's a rainy Tuesday morning and this is the best I could come up with. Better stuff later in the week, my friends… I promise. In the meantime, please enjoy the pics and have yourself a laugh. I thought it was a hoot. [click here for all the pics ]
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