Is academy sport and outdoors selling used pistols?

[~kev~]

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.

 

[rbernie]

Academy does not buy/sell used firearms. The handguns and rifles at my local stores are in fine/as-new shape.

 

[~kev~]

Ok, so why did the pistols at the academy in Beaumont look so wore and beat up? New pistols are not usually missing bluing or have surface rust.

The statement "academy does not sell used firearms" is what the guy behind the counter told me, but that does not mean it is the truth. There is no way some of those pistols were new.


My beretta 92fs is 19 years old, I bought it the month I turned 21. This pistol has well over 5,000 rounds through it, maybe even close to 10,000 rounds. The beretta at academy had a LOT more wear on it then my 19 year old model.

This is my pistol, I took this picture this evening.

 

[blutarsky]

every gun i've ever seen in an academy appears to be new -- the only thing i was slightly annoyed with was an 870 express i bought that had slight surface rusting... that was almost certainly due to the humid conditions here and being stored in warehouse somewhere. it wasn't too bad and a nice clean fixed it up fine.

i frequent 4 different academy stores and i've never seen any firearm which made me question its "newness"

 

[xrod69]

i bought a g19 but asked them to order me a new one they did and it was perfect they usually will give you 10 percent off if you complain.