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Posted: 5/19/2001 2:07:29 PM EDT

[#1]

There is no delima; do the right thing as a honest responsible gun owner should.

Posted: 5/19/2001 2:59:34 PM EDT

[#2]

Looks like you may have gotten a Stainless Super Tuned Standard from the Custom Shop that comes with low-profile Novak sights and a 7 shot mag (8 shot on your original blue model). Mfg. suggested price was $995 when last manuf. in 99.

I'd go back and do it right.

Posted: 5/19/2001 3:18:31 PM EDT

[#3]

This morning at 10:00 I called the gun store and told the clerk about the mistake. He said that he would hang the guy who made the mistake (himself).

This afternoon he called my wife to see if he could pick up the pistol as the guy who purchased it came in today to pick it up. Too bad that it's safe inside my safe which the wife doesn't have the combo to. The gun will get returned on Monday.

Posted: 5/19/2001 3:38:18 PM EDT

[#4]

Troll you are a stand up guy, glad you did the right thing.

Hey Raven, Comerica a bank in the midwest put $2,000,000 in checking by mistake. They didn't know for a couple of weeks. When she called to tell them. They treated her like she stole it. Too bad there wasn't another zero, Mexico would have been a great lace to live!

Posted: 5/19/2001 3:43:01 PM EDT

[#5]

The guy that actually bought that pistol and went to pick it up today must be highly pissed. I would be.

OSA

Posted: 5/19/2001 7:31:51 PM EDT

[#6]

Bought pistol one time, went to pick it up after the waitng period and was told by the gun dealer that the accid gave it to some else by mistake. They had to chase the guy down and get it back since all the paperwork for the serial # was in my name.

Posted: 5/20/2001 4:54:04 AM EDT

[#7]

All the guys who said keep it.......

I dont know about the others, but I will think 3,487,325 times before dealing with you....

The overwhelming honesty is what has ALWAYS made me proud to be one of the men that has the interests I have. Our Patriotism, our Morals, Values, our honesty, Respect and Beliefs.

To quote/alter/steal the Army awards ceremony, 'We reflect great credit upon ourselves, our families, and the United States.'

And you guys that said keep it, a Gomer Pyle quote....'Shame, Shame, Shame'......

Posted: 5/20/2001 5:33:34 AM EDT

[#8]

Do the Right thing.

Take it back...you'll sleep better.

Posted: 5/20/2001 6:35:37 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
This morning at 10:00 I called the gun store and told the clerk about the mistake. He said that he would hang the guy who made the mistake (himself).

This afternoon he called my wife to see if he could pick up the pistol as the guy who purchased it came in today to pick it up. Too bad that it's safe inside my safe which the wife doesn't have the combo to. The gun will get returned on Monday.

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[beer] You did the right thing

Posted: 5/20/2001 6:35:47 AM EDT

[#10]

Do the right thing, of coarse, but aint nothing worse than doing the right thing and getting no thanks or being treated like YOU did something wrong. If the guys not at least thankful I'd find another shop and I'd tell him so. His Mistake.

Posted: 5/20/2001 10:21:18 AM EDT

[#11]

Just wanted to post something. I dont get any responses anyway.

Posted: 5/20/2001 11:26:38 AM EDT

[#12]

Troll, you did the right thing.

For those of you advocating keeping the gun, what would your reaction be if you were the buyer of the SS gun and got a box with the blued gun in it? You'd scream to high heaven. If you forgot one bag of your purchases, and went back for it, what would be your reaction if the gun store just kept it?

CavVet is exactly right about his willingness to do business with the guys saying keep it. To me, what the "keep it" guys are advocating is theft -- pure and simple. You bargained for one thing and took another.

Its not uncommon for an error to be made in a deal. Sometimes the other person will find it. Sometimes they will not. But is you want them to correct your mistakes, you have to correct their mistakes.

Posted: 5/20/2001 3:46:52 PM EDT

[#13]

Me too ar10er , they never give us new guys any attention !

Posted: 5/20/2001 4:04:46 PM EDT

[#14]

Why do you even have to ask this question? You own self worth should have already decided the issue for you.
Don't be a jerk.

Posted: 5/20/2001 4:07:23 PM EDT

[#15]

The store owner will discover the mistake..every entry in 'the book' must match. While he can't force you to return the gun you must realize what this will do to your karma if you do not do the right thing. What goes around WILL come around.

Posted: 5/20/2001 4:31:52 PM EDT

[#16]

Serious or not...it was fun playing "what if"

Posted: 5/21/2001 4:24:04 AM EDT

[#17]

Use the situaton to your advantage. Call them up and find out what kind of deal they will give you on the stainless model. I wouldn't keep it though... someone will end up paying for it and it will more than likely be you. Just in a different transaction...

Posted: 5/21/2001 5:05:53 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
So if this dealer is your friend, be sure to return it. Otherwise.......why?

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Why?? Becuase it is the right thing to do.

SOMEONE in this world has to do right. Otherwise, earth will turn into more of a hell than it already is.

I HOPE someone does YOU that way, Raven. Then you'll change you tune.

great set of morals you've got their - do right by your friends - screw everyone else.

Oooooyyyy vay......

Posted: 5/21/2001 5:08:55 AM EDT

[#19]

Well, i gotta say.....

Lord knows I've got into some knock down drag out bar room fights with some of you guys over moral issues.

But this thread gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, in that the majority of you guys are in favor of doing RIGHT and returning the gun.

Three cheers for AR15.com!!!!!!!!!! You are my kind of people.

Posted: 5/21/2001 5:12:10 AM EDT

[#20]

"To know what is right and do otherwise is to want of courage."

-Confucious

Take it back.

ronnie

Posted: 5/21/2001 12:10:46 PM EDT

[#21]

Just got back from the gun store. They made me happy by giving me an extra Springfield Armory magazine and a box of Winchester ammo. And I have a free and good conscience too. This time I looked in the box before I left and didn't stop at McD's on the way home.

Posted: 5/21/2001 12:57:48 PM EDT

[#22]

I'm bothered that it even took you 3 days to make it right.

What if you had been pulled over and they ran a trace. Your story, albeit the truth, would seem a bit on the fishy side to most LEO's... especially some of the younger hot-headed guys trying to "prove" themselves!

Anything other than immediately returning it could have been construed as firearms theft, and that's a FELONY!

[*] FWIW: Everyone should make sure to check the serial numbers against the paperwork/receipt you are given at time of purchase. Even though it's someone else's mistake, it could cause you a lot of trouble when they undergoe an ATF compliance check and see a firearm in inventory, that has been logged out as sold, and vice-versa!

Posted: 5/21/2001 1:35:26 PM EDT

[#23]

Troll did the right thing
to the idiots that say "keep the gun", remember that the blued gun is Registered to Troll and the stainless one to someone else, if the tables were turned and you went to pick up your gun and found out it was given away by mistake would you be pissed? i would
if YOUR gun that is REGISTERED TO YOU was given away and used in a crime and ditched near the crime scene where the cops found it and traced it back to YOU, think your life would SUCK for a few days trying to sort that out? YEP

it might be different if you bought a 3" knife and openned the box and got the 5" knife

Posted: 5/21/2001 4:08:16 PM EDT

[#24]

Damn AntiUSSA [what does that mean anyway] give a man a break will ya'?

I work as a fireman in another county from the gun store and pulled two 16 hour shifts over the weekend if that is all right with you. The store wasn't open after my shifts. I did offer to meet the guy and do the switch if he'd name a place. The clerk said he'd rather wait until this morning/afternoon.

If the police had managed to crack my gun safe they'd find the pistol all right still new in wrap with the dated sales receipt but I highly doubt that having a pistol that was given to me by MISTAKE due to no fault of my own would be a felony [b]even[/b] here in California. I did manage to call the gun store the next business minute they were open to inform them of THEIR mistake.

I had checked the serial numbers vs. the form when the clerk filled it in. My error was not catching their mistake when the clerk picked the box up from the exact same place I saw him place the closed box an hour earlier. I have done thousands of dollars worth of business with these guys over the last six or eight years and, wait a minute... trust them. Now they know they can trust me too.

Posted: 5/21/2001 4:29:22 PM EDT

[#25]

So the moral delemia is what to do? [red]I suppose that the gun store is eventually going to sell the blue gun to someone else.[/red] My receipt has a different serial number from the first blue pistol. [red]I'm guessing that there is no way for the gun store to figure out that they sold the same gun twice.[/red]

What should I do?

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The fact that you ever considered what you actually wrote here is why I came down hard on you... [b]From your own statements, you did obviously consider not returning it![/b] Had you not returned it, that would have been felony theft.

[*] [b]antiUSSA[/b] = [b]anti U[/b]nited [b]S[/b]ocialist [b]S[/b]tates of [b]A[/b]merika [red]([i]I'm very against that![/i])[/red]

Posted: 5/21/2001 4:42:46 PM EDT

[#26]

(sound of drum roll)
[size=3]Troll, from this date on, you are no longer a member of TAA(Troll Association of America). You are forever banned from membership in TAA due to your displayed honesty and therefore are a disgrace to the Troll organization. Your official TAA Troll badge must be destroyed immediately and you will live the rest of your life as a Troll failure. [/size=3]

Hey bro, you did the right thing. Glad to have your honesty on this board! I'm sure somebody else will do the same for you in some other capacity. This cold one is on me! [beer]

[b]-RoadDog[/b]
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Posted: 5/21/2001 5:41:52 PM EDT

[#27]

Normally I would say correct the mistake, but, there are so many asshole dealers out there that this may be payback for them screwing so many people. Keep the gun. On the othere hand, what kind of morron leaves a gun store without checking his piece first? Both you and the dealer are screwd up!

Posted: 5/21/2001 5:51:13 PM EDT

[#28]

Such question should not have been asked in the first place.

Whether you admit it or not, for a moment there, you were thinking of keeping the gun or you would not have asked this question.

You wanted someone to tell you that it is okay to keep it but [blue]fortunately[/blue], most of the members here advised you to take it back and you did the right thing.

But think about it, what if the majority told you to keep it as payback for all the bullshit that gunowners get from some dealers. Would you still return it???

No flame intended, I just called it as I see it!