I have to say this isn't only occurring in the firearms world; I used to run Nitro powered R/C cars where these little race engine costs around 500 bucks. Guys would have headlines in their ads; "New O.S. Speed Engine". Then you'd read the text in the post and it would re-iterate "NEW", YET the person states 2 tanks of gas were run through it.

WTF? How is that new? In two tanks, you could have damaged that engine...

Anyways, I've got to agree with the original post, when did "New" start meaning something other than "New"?