Why do people ship spent cartridges with a new gun?

[heypete]

I was bedazzled by the idea of some humorless lab-coated HK engineer test-firing the pistol in a cleanroom in Oberndorf, to confirm zat everyseeng vas verking perfektly.

When I bought my Bushmaster AR, they included a target showing the consistency of it being fired.

Alas, the sights were somewhat crooked, and it required 20 clicks on the windage knob to get it to shoot on target at 25 yards. I sent it back to Bushmaster with a note explaining the issue, they fixed it and sent it back with another target.

I'd love to be one of Bushmaster's target-shooting people. You get paid to shoot all day. What's not to love?

 

[mindwip]

If you get a spent cartridge, send a letter to the Company you bought it from, and tell them you were sold a used gun not a new one. Ask for a discount.

 

[outofbattery]

There was a post on here not long ago where some guy said something about wanting to make sure he was the first person to ever fire his gun so he would never buy used and I think his balloon got a little deflated when he found out all his guns were reformed virgins

 

[tinygnat219]

To let you know that the gun is 100% reliable. See? It fired one shot out of one, guaranteed 100% reliable out of the box.

Seriously, some states require that a case be sent with the gun and another to the State Police Ballistics lab where it can be entered into a Ballistics database. Since some gunmakers like Taurus make their guns to sell in all markets, buyers get a fired shell casing with every gun. Stupid, I know. However, it's cheaper for the manufacturers to comply with it.

 

[PPGMD]

I'd love to be one of Bushmaster's target-shooting people. You get paid to shoot all day. What's not to love?

Unless you simply like to be around guns all day, it doesn't seem like that great of a job.

You take a gun, put in in the vice, staple up a target, ripple off 5 shots. Ones that don't pass go back for adjustment, ones that do pass you sign the target, and put in in the shipping line.

You don't get to spend quality time with the weapon learning it's characteristics and dealing with windage and other factors.

 

[CannonFodder]

^^^
Beats working at MacDonalds.

 

[PPGMD]

Beats working at MacDonalds.

True, but I wouldn't put it in the dream job category.