~kev~
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Is academy sport and outdoors selling used pistols and telling their customers they are new?
On Friday, December 28th, I was at academy sport and outdoors in Beaumont texas. While looking at the pistols, I noticed several had the bluing wore off of them. One pistol, a beretta 92FS had more bluing missing then my 19 year old model. Some of the Ruger P series also had a lot of bluing missing. The chambers of the Ruger pistols even looked like they had surface rust on them.
I asked the clerk why they were selling used pistols, his reply was the pistols were brand new. I then told him the Beretta had more wear on it them my model that was 19 years old. My beretta has well over 5,000 rounds through it, maybe even close to 10,000 rounds and the brand new pistol at academy had a LOT more wear then mine.
Has the quality control of Ruger and Beretta dropped and pistols are getting to the public with wore off bluing, or is academy selling used pistols and telling their customers they are new?
If anyone lives close to an academy sport and outdoors, check out the pistols and see what kind of condition they are in. The glocks looked good and were in brand new condition. Most of the other brands looked worse then a lot of pistols I have seen in pawn shops.
On Friday, December 28th, I was at academy sport and outdoors in Beaumont texas. While looking at the pistols, I noticed several had the bluing wore off of them. One pistol, a beretta 92FS had more bluing missing then my 19 year old model. Some of the Ruger P series also had a lot of bluing missing. The chambers of the Ruger pistols even looked like they had surface rust on them.
I asked the clerk why they were selling used pistols, his reply was the pistols were brand new. I then told him the Beretta had more wear on it them my model that was 19 years old. My beretta has well over 5,000 rounds through it, maybe even close to 10,000 rounds and the brand new pistol at academy had a LOT more wear then mine.
Has the quality control of Ruger and Beretta dropped and pistols are getting to the public with wore off bluing, or is academy selling used pistols and telling their customers they are new?
If anyone lives close to an academy sport and outdoors, check out the pistols and see what kind of condition they are in. The glocks looked good and were in brand new condition. Most of the other brands looked worse then a lot of pistols I have seen in pawn shops.