Detail strip prior to sale?

[BPTactical]

A field strip/function check is a perfectly acceptable method of verifying condition prior to the firearm changing hands.
If you are the purchaser ask the seller to strip it, especially if you are not familiar with the correct takedown procedure.
If you are the seller DO NOT allow the purchaser to strip it. Offer to strip it.
A quick fieldstrip/function check is a good CYA for both of you. For the purchaser they get a bit of piece of mind that they are getting a serviceable firearm and the seller KNOWS the firearm left his hands in serviceable condition. It also leaves the seller with concrete proof incase the purchaser comes back a couple days later bitching that you sold them a lemon.


Here's an offer I will extend to COAR15 members-if both parties are members here and you want a prepurchase/presale inspection-the both of you come to my shop and add to the Pepsi fund and I will be happy to give it a once over and function check in the presence of both.
You will have to complete your transaction away from my premises but I will be glad to give a look for you.

[Clint45]

I wonder if we have ran into the same guy. I've only had one person that wanted to disassemble a weapon before he bought it. It was an AR 15. I let him take it apart. After he inspected it, he said it was not really what he was looking for. I'm thinking WTF?? Taking it apart was not going to change what kind of firearm it was. Then he started in on if it was cheaper, maybe he would buy it. I could not get him out of my house fast enough. The AR he was looking at had less than 100 rounds through it. All of this was after a very adamant "I WILL TAKE IT". Not a "I will take it if you let me take it apart and come down on the price".

Original sale thread is here: http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21401

I think I had finally dropped the price to $600 in order to pay for the 1911 which I spent every dollar I had on just 20 minutes before meeting with this fuck. He replied to armslist ad, but later got a membership here and posted saying he wanted to buy other carbines as well. Older guy, 60s, heavy set, white hair, glasses, friends with the guy at the M1 carbine table near the front door at Tanner, drives a F-350, works at a plant near Tanner. Scumbag.

[rondog]

I'm typically not a haggler, and I've only got singed a couple of times. Paid way too much for a .38 snubbie because I didn't know any better, and bought a Jap Arisaka that had been sporterized and has a shot-out barrel that I shouldn't have bought. Oh well. But I'd never insist on somebody stripping a gun for sale. I do carry a little flashlight though, that comes in handy for peeking here and there.

[ray1970]

I have had a couple of requests to take a couple of my sales items apart for inspection. The buyers asked nicely if I'd mind taking it apart. I will pop a slide off a pistol for someone, pull a bolt from a rifle, or something along those lines if it puts the buyers mind at ease.

[Graves]

Glocks and pistols of the like are fine with me but if it's a 1911 or something that takes a little practice to tear down, I'll hold the cash first - an idiot mark and you just bought it.

[mc223]

I believe that all potential buyers of any product that I have for sale must first, not mistrust me. Someone may have burned them in their past, but it wasn't me.
In return I will provide, as much truthful information as I have on the subject.

Or they can just go away.

I would take a questionable firearm to a smith myself and have it checked before putting it up for sale.

If a potential buyer doesn't like my terms. Oh Well.

No disassembly by a potential buyer.

[TS12000]

I guess I'm in the vein of just ask as well. If a seller won't and you don't feel right about it walk away. However, don't just start ripping apart someone else's shit, not cool.

I wouldn't be too worried about much more than a quick look over for most of the established members here though. You've proven you are not here to just dump some guns + the feedback section for some of you is amazingly long, positive, and helpful if you haven't met the person before.

[Clint45]

I have had a couple of requests to take a couple of my sales items apart for inspection. The buyers asked nicely if I'd mind taking it apart. I will pop a slide off a pistol for someone, pull a bolt from a rifle, or something along those lines if it puts the buyers mind at ease.

My problem is, due to my disabilities, I have a great deal of difficulty stripping down even the simplest of weapons, and I'm certainly not going to attempt it with no prior notice standing in some parking lot.

I've allowed people to take the slide off of pistols before if it was something like a Glock or a Makarov. That is no big deal for me. I've read the armorer's manual for the M1 carbine before and knew that you need special tools to break down the trigger group and there is no way I'd ever be able to put it back together. Same thing with an expert tuned match trigger on a 1911 -- I don't want some fumble fingers phucktard taking a perfect trigger apart for no possible reason other than they want to fuck me out of a hundred dollars or more on a pistol I've already priced two hundred less than it is worth. If you don't like the trigger pull you can have a smith install heavier springs.

[TFOGGER]

the big red flag for me would be that said jackhole was about to try to disassemble the "collector" gun with a leatherman. That's like using a crescent wrench to "look" at a classic Porsche.

[BlasterBob]

an idiot mark and you just bought it.

Guess you are referring to the careless reinsertion of the slide stop on a 1911/1911A1 which can produce that damn unsightly scratch from just behind the trigger right up the frame. UGH.