If it's truly unfired you can look for certain things.
1. Take apart the bolt carrier and look for powder marks.
2. Look inside the receiver for wear marks. An unfired receiver will not have any marks on the inside of the receiver from wear.
3. Look at the cocking lever, it should have little to no wear where it rides in the cocking lever tube.
4. Look at the "piston" on the cocking lever, should not have much if any marks on it.
5. Look at the takedown contact areas. There should not be any scratches on the selector lever.
6. Look at the buttstock cap, should have little to no wear on the finish where it slips over the back of the receiver.
Take a patch with oil/solvent and rub it in the receiver and in/around the trunnion. Any powder residue that doesn't look like 10 rounds worth is not new. They used to ship with a 3 round test target.