Detail strip prior to sale?

[BlasterBob]

Ouch, am I guilty of killing another thread with my post yesterday?

[SA Friday]

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.

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I function check anything I buy. I allow function check on anything I sell. Quite frankly, if I can't dry fire it the seller is to stupid for me to buy from or the gun is a POS and I don't want it. If I have questions about the gun, I have requested field stripping to inspect the internals. If I dont have any questions from the function check, and the seller is trusted I have purchased without a field strip.

For me, it really depends on the type of gun as to just how much I look at before purchase. The only thing I give a crap about on a glock are the frame and slide. Nothing else is critical. A revolver, I check the cylinder to forcing cone gap, movement in the locked up cylinder, the crane and the barrel to frame assy, and basic trigger function. AR's, well I check more than a few things on them, but they are pretty easy to inspect for issues. I'm not pulling trigger Assy's or checking barrel nuts though... Something like the internals of an A5 shotgun, well, now you've hit 'crazy talk' levels.

I really do prefer to buy from people I know or from this site. I have a rifle with dead barrels on it from a gunshow 'learning experience' from years ago. Some day, it might get rebarreled.