Buying a new firearm with a 1-2year warranty IMO is up to the place of purchase to deal with the manufacturers warranties seeing as the store is selling the product. I've dealt with other store's over warranty, and the store took the gun back and got it fixed in a timely fashion or offered a refund if fix would be prolonged. Different experience at Epp's, purchased a new firearm through mail order. Wrong gun was shipped, I had to paying for return shipping, next gun the proper gun was faulty. Epps wanted nothing to do with it, I was left to deal with the problem myself. That was my first and last purchase. I shop elsewhere, where I'm treated like a customer that will want to return for future purchases. There's no such thing as a "monopoly" as mail-order can be had from around the country. When I buy a truck I take it back to the dealer I purchased it from for warranty, not told to call GM and deal with the problem on my own. The day that happens I will shop elsewhere.