Do You "Register" Your Firearm With The Manufacturer?

I never have. I'm not particularly worried about privacy issues, I just want to avoid junk mail and e-mail. If I have an issue I'll contact the manufacturer.

Sure, why not?

My big reason is just in case there is some recall.

Filling out “warranty registrations” is all marketing. Nothing to do with whether you are covered under warranty or not. Junk mail and spam email as they WILL sell your information to third party marketers/telemarketers.

Keeping a receipt or proof of purchase is all you will ever need for warranty if that. A recall effects all products whether you are the original purchaser or not and needs no proof of purchase. Really just a serial number.

I never have. Mostly, don't buy a lot of new-in-box guns. But also, agree it's all marketing BS. Guns are serialized. You can prove everything needed for a warranty without filling in a card like it's the 1950s.

Minor theoretical value is in recalls. But I am gunny enough even before Internet I go to gun stores and they post them on the wall by the door. So: still aware of it, unlike say carseats or food or whatever.

(Costco uses your personal data to warn of recalls directly which is nice, and they do not market with it, so we read their emails).

Only ones I have done or seen filled out a lot is when they provide something else free, like a spare mag. Think more should do that. Good trick to get higher take rate on registering but also: still see dealers steal stuff out of the kits like spare mags, sell them to you at retail. All makers should include some swag with purchase, but to avoid it getting snagged by dealers and distributors, mail it to you on request instead.

One would have to buy new guns to even have to consider it.......thats not really mo

I DO have half a dozen warranty cards, from the 50s and 60s. Fun to keep but for the companies that exist, sometimes I think of filling in one and sending it in. I am sure nothing visible-to-me would happen, but still fun to think about them figuring out what to do with it on receipt.

I have a few times. I have dealt with some customer service reps that asked for the cards/online registration be done for warranty or repair work. As a general rule? Nope.

Rear the fine print of any "warranty" Some say you need to return the warranty within 30 days. That said I have never sent one it.
I have had warranty work done on SW and Ruger with no forms ever sent in.
With some brands returning it to the mother ship is a given!

Also a lot of companies have an online version to "submit"

newfalguy101 said:

One would have to buy new guns to even have to consider it.......thats not really mo

Click to expand...

I've bought used guns with the original box with the warranty card still in it.

Never sent it in though

Without a vote bubble for "someties," there is no way I can vote in your poll.

I have never bothered and still I have had no trouble with fixes under warranty. For warranty purposes, they have never been interested in anything beyond the serial number. "Warranty Registration" is just for direct-mail advertising, and maybe recall notices. The 4473 is the de-facto registration, though transfers without one are still possible under increasingly rare circumstances. I wonder but mostly doubt there is ballistic fingerprinting or microstamp recording via factory test firing. I know it's been on gun control wish lists, but I suppose that's getting off topic.

earlthegoat2 said:

Filling out “warranty registrations” is all marketing. Nothing to do with whether you are covered under warranty or not. Junk mail and spam email as they WILL sell your information to third party marketers/telemarketers.

Keeping a receipt or proof of purchase is all you will ever need for warranty if that. A recall effects all products whether you are the original purchaser or not and needs no proof of purchase. Really just a serial number.

Click to expand...

This.

Registration cards are just another way acquire personal information for the manufacturer to use for its own marketing, as well as package and sell to third parties so that they can try to sell you even more junk.

Yes.

I also have registered laser sights with the manufacturer.

I have had one shotgun recalled and repaired because of a slam-fire hazard and had one laser sight recalled & replaced because of possible radioactive hazard.

I have had two other firearms repaired under warranty free of charge including free shipping.

jmr40 said:

I never have. I'm not particularly worried about privacy issues, I just want to avoid junk mail and e-mail. If I have an issue I'll contact the manufacturer.

Click to expand...

Me too. We get enough junk mail, and junk e-mail as it is. We really do.

Nope, not once.
Don't do it for other consumer goods, either. (Learned that lesson long ago in the pre-internet days.)
For things like printers and the like that hae required online registration, I have a throw-away email account (that I'm not sure I even have the p/w for).

Only if it is required to send it back for work. And then I plead that l am an old fart without a computer or email access. Works every time.

Occasionally ----basically to get the discount at shopruger.com for the accessories I want for that particular firearm.

I never have. Don't see the point. Kind of like registering a new appliance...why? The bill of sale is all I need to claim warranty. Recalls or other issues usually reach out by word of mouth.

Nope. I wish I could say it’s because I want to be all stealthy and stick it to the man and be off radar blah blah blah.......but basically it’s because I am lazy and don’t want extra spam in my life.

If you are worried about registering because the ebil .gov is gonna door kick you at o’dark thirty one day........I have some bad news for you.........not registering your firearm with the manufacturer is t gonna slow that roll should it happen and you probably want to stop posting on gun forums.

No when I buy a new gun I rush home watch every YouTube video ever made about that gun then once that’s done it’s off to the range. Who has time for warranty cards?

I purchased a Beretta handgun a few years ago. The warranty card said one year, three years if you sent in the card or did it on line. I did it online. Two years later I had problems and had to call Beretta. They sent ups to the house to pick up the gun. They paid ups to pick up. They paid to Replace the slide and paid for return. The gun was gone exactly one week from the day it was picked up to the day i got it back. Glad I registered the warranty. Privacy? On the warranty card? How about all the info you gave at the gun shop. Did you have to get a permit from the sheriff's office? They do a background check? All your " Privacy" was long gone before you got to the warranty card. I never got any emails, ads from Beretta or anybody else except one how did we do servicing your gun email.

I did with two handguns. Everything else is used: WW2 Sauer (>500 rds.), '94 Sig P228 (> 1,000 rds.), CZ 'PCR' (> 1,000 rds.), Spanish Star BM etc.

The coolest handguns seem to be those which are no longer produced, and have metal instead of plastic.
And they have no issues, other than the firing pin in the Star BM which was very easily replaced.

No "registration" options were available on the four imported AKs etc.

The only one I registered was my S.A. XDE, and it was required to get the 3 free mags and the soft sided carry case. Otherwise, no. How much "private" information do we willingly divulge right here on THR? Or on Facebook?

As far as buying used guns, possibly implicating a desire to avoid completing the 4473, that really is getting hard to do. In my area, and I can not explain this in any way, it seems like every online used gun sale ad states something to the effect of photo ID and signed bill of sale required. It's as though the private seller wants to photograph the private buyer's driver license and have the buyer sign a document stating that he or she bought the gun from the seller. As though the seller is going to scan or photograph said bill of sale, load both to google drive, and store them in perpetuity.