KJS
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have you had to send back to the factory for repair?
It's impossible to tell based upon Internet posts. After all, there's not much posting about the non-event of a gun working as a gun is supposed to work. Vast more posting on guns that fail to work properly.
Given that obvious bias, I don't know if finding a lemon is 1 in 1,000 or 1 in 10.
Owning only 6 guns, 5 of which I bought my sample size if far too small to produce meaningful results. If we went by my sample, there's a 40% lemon rate with 2 out of 5 needing a trip back to the factory from which they came.
A Ruger MKIII got sent back due to a rear sight that refused to stay in place & leaned a little to the right. Ruger ended up needing to replace the barrel/receiver, giving me a "new gun" under ATF's definition of firearm.
A S&W 617 recently got back from having the forcing cone cut, and it seems to be less of a lead spitter now. Though other possible issues remain with that.
I'm just wondering: have I simply had bad luck, or could there really be this many lemons out there? Seems gun companies would go bankrupt having to spend all this on repairs if this is the norm. Though I bet most defects go unnoticed by consumers, seeing how the life of the average handgun involves one box of ammo, the owner deciding they are now a master marksman, and then gun sits around till owner drops dead of old age decades later.
It's impossible to tell based upon Internet posts. After all, there's not much posting about the non-event of a gun working as a gun is supposed to work. Vast more posting on guns that fail to work properly.
Given that obvious bias, I don't know if finding a lemon is 1 in 1,000 or 1 in 10.
Owning only 6 guns, 5 of which I bought my sample size if far too small to produce meaningful results. If we went by my sample, there's a 40% lemon rate with 2 out of 5 needing a trip back to the factory from which they came.
A Ruger MKIII got sent back due to a rear sight that refused to stay in place & leaned a little to the right. Ruger ended up needing to replace the barrel/receiver, giving me a "new gun" under ATF's definition of firearm.
A S&W 617 recently got back from having the forcing cone cut, and it seems to be less of a lead spitter now. Though other possible issues remain with that.
I'm just wondering: have I simply had bad luck, or could there really be this many lemons out there? Seems gun companies would go bankrupt having to spend all this on repairs if this is the norm. Though I bet most defects go unnoticed by consumers, seeing how the life of the average handgun involves one box of ammo, the owner deciding they are now a master marksman, and then gun sits around till owner drops dead of old age decades later.