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Years ago, some guy tried to sell me a 6-inch Security-Six that clearly had some parts interchanged. The cylinder barely fit and the barrel/cylinder gap was so large I could have watched a movie through it! I didn't even need a gauge. And when I pulled the trigger, it was fine at first but built up to the point where I could barely get it to break.
The guy had driven about 15 miles to close what he thought was a sure deal, and he was pi$$ed when I declined the sale. I showed him the problem areas and he assured me that's how the gun came from Ruger. I didn't want to call him a liar so I told him that whoever sold the gun to him in the first place had most likely swapped some key parts with another Ruger. At that point I got a little too close to the truth, I think, and he put his gun back into the brown paper bag he'd brought it in and left. I watched him leave through an upstairs window to make sure he didn't key my car on the way out (he didn't), and the next day I got a call from a mutual acquaintance who was a bit miffed that I hadn't bought his friend's Security-Six. He said he had inspected the gun himself and that there was nothing wrong with it.
It got me wondering whether you guys had any interesting/horror stories. I didn't even come close to buying this Frankensteinian nightmare, but how about you? Do you have any stories where you bought a lemon, almost bought a lemon or was presented with a handgun that was so horrendously awful that it's hard to believe that someone would try to palm it off on you?
And how did you handle it?
The guy had driven about 15 miles to close what he thought was a sure deal, and he was pi$$ed when I declined the sale. I showed him the problem areas and he assured me that's how the gun came from Ruger. I didn't want to call him a liar so I told him that whoever sold the gun to him in the first place had most likely swapped some key parts with another Ruger. At that point I got a little too close to the truth, I think, and he put his gun back into the brown paper bag he'd brought it in and left. I watched him leave through an upstairs window to make sure he didn't key my car on the way out (he didn't), and the next day I got a call from a mutual acquaintance who was a bit miffed that I hadn't bought his friend's Security-Six. He said he had inspected the gun himself and that there was nothing wrong with it.
It got me wondering whether you guys had any interesting/horror stories. I didn't even come close to buying this Frankensteinian nightmare, but how about you? Do you have any stories where you bought a lemon, almost bought a lemon or was presented with a handgun that was so horrendously awful that it's hard to believe that someone would try to palm it off on you?
And how did you handle it?
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