Do you turn in your registration/warranty card?

[Harvster]

Just wondering if folks generally fill out these cards for new guns. I don't think they have anything to do with the actual warranty, and I imagine they serve as a conduit for junk mail.

 

[Bacchus]

I don't turn them in--for the exact reason you mentioned--junk mail. I hope that anything mandatory (like a recall) will be advertised everywhere, so I'll just find out at it via some other method.

 

[K-Romulus]

But, but, a federal judge ruled in the NAACP lawsuit against gun manufacturers that failure to send in a warranty card is an indicator of a straw sale!

You can't make this stuff up:
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED
PEOPLE, Plaintiff, -- against -- ACUSPORT, INC., et al., Defendants
271 F. Supp. 2d 435, 513 (E.D.N.Y 2003)

1. Smith & Wesson Warranty Card Information

178. Ms. Allen use of information taken from Smith
& Wesson warranty card returns to calculate whether the
supply of handguns to a state exceeded so-called
"legitimate demand" was appropriate.

179. Ms. Allen's use of this information was based
on a number of reasonable assumptions, including: that
the purchasers voluntarily returning warranty cards were
representative of Smith & Wesson handgun purchasers;
that the Smith & Wesson handgun purchasers returning
the warranty cards were representative of handgun
purchasers; and that Smith & Wesson handgun
purchasers could be used as a proxy for legitimate
demand.

180. The assumptions made by plaintiff's expert
regarding the Smith & Wesson warranty card returns
were well founded.

181. Ms. Allen's use of the Smith & Wesson
warranty card information along with other evidence in
the case to estimate legitimate demand was a
reliable basis upon which to conclude that any particular
state was "oversupplied" with handguns by defendants.

 

[Blackbeard]

I did, partially to establish a date the weapon was acquired in the event of a state ban.

 

[Ghost Tracker]

I keep it (but don't fill-it-out), along with the receipt & the silly fired cases as part of the gun's original "paperwork". I've never had a warranty issue denied because the manufacturer didn't recieve the "Warranty Card" after my purchase.

 

[230RN]

Well, I'll be dipped! That's a pretty chintzy way to "show" that the supply of handguns to a state exceeded so-called legitimate demand.

I never send in cards on anything, guns or otherwise.

I get enough junk mail as it is.

I tell you, folks... we need a complete revamp of the justice system in this country.

I tell you that fer true.

But I'll wait for the disposition of the Heller case. That may restore my faith in the judiciary...

...a little.

 

[Werewolf]

I don't send in the warranty cards. Why make the ATF's job any easier?

Currently to trace a gun they must go to the manufacturer who points them at a distributor who points them at another distributor or an FFL who can pull the 4473 and tell them who bought the gun first.

Send in the warranty card and the ATF knows right off the bat who bought a gun they're trying to trace just by going to the manufacturer..

Nope - I will not make a government stooge's job any easier than I have to.

 

[benEzra]

I own a Smith & Wesson, and I didn't.

It's not that I don't trust Smith & Wesson with that information per se, but I don't necessarily trust the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with that information.

I would expect that the percentage of owners who return the "direct marketing enablement card" is well under 50%.

 

[wally]

partially to establish a date the weapon was acquired in the event of a state ban

Are we ready to roll over so easily? Is the Constitution really in such tatters that you now have to prove your innocence, instead of the State needing to prove your guilt?

--wally.

 

[CajunBass]

Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. No reason either way really.

 

[Thernlund]

Never. Guns or any other items. Not really for any other reason than it just doesn't make my to-do list. Zero priority.

Although... I think I did send the one in for my safe. And that was only because daughter #2 felt like filling the thing out for whatever reason. Pfff.


-T.

 

[G_Lyons]

the only thing I ever send them in on are carseats and the like for my son. I want to know yesterday if it will be recalled on friday. but guns no chance in a frozen hell with flying pigs.

 

[Oohrah]

NEVER !!!! Date is determined by serial number if recalled
or banned. Never for any repair call back do they ask for
a warrenty

 

[Cougfan2]

Never. The warranty CARD is not what guarantees your warranty. As long as you keep the original dated receipt you can't be denied warranty services unless the terms of the warranty SPECIFACALLY STATE that failure to send in a warranty card voids your warranty.

The only reason they want the card is to market to you or sell your contact info.

 

[def4pos8]

The cards are nothing but cheap market research data for the maker. If they want to PAY ME for that information, I MIGHT consider providing it.

I've had no difficulty with warranty claims made on Colt, S&W and Ruger over the years -- and NEVER sent in a card.

 

[TallPine]

No..

 

[john1911]

More often than not.

 

[Technosavant]

Usually. I'm not paranoid, I'm not worried about sale of my info, and I don't mind getting the occasional catalog (provides perusal material in the throne room).

 

[glockman19]

Yes, Guilty. I did.

 

[Regolith]

Nope. I don't do it for anything I buy, including software.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I don't send in warranty cards. I register the warranty online. Although it seems to have made little practical difference, I feel more comfortable having it registered when I make a warranty claim. And you don't have to fill in the survey part, just the gun's serial number.

 

[Ala Dan]

No< I don't turn in firearms warranty cards at the time of purchase, as I can
always validate the warranty on any firearm on a "as needed" basis. Now on
other equipment such as rifle scopes, binoculars, range finders, or game
cameras it might pay to fill out the warranty registration cards upon the
actual purchase date~?

 

[RancidSumo]

I sent in the card for my Taurus and I never get any junk mail.

 

[vynx]

Nope - You do not need to send in the card to have the warrenty

 

[Hot brass]

No, I do not.