Firearm factory testing?

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I was told the following by a Canadian fireams dealer:

"By US regulations, all manufacturers must test fire a minimum of 40 rounds through every firearm before shipping."

I spent time searching the Internet for any mention of this, & found nothing. Before I call BS on this, has anyone ever heard of any such regulation on U.S gun makers?

George
 
I was under the impression that every firearm manufacturer test fires every gun before it goes out the door....but never heard of the 40 round minimum.

My glock came with two casings indicating that the firearm had been test fired at the factory.
 
Onagoth said:
I was under the impression that every firearm manufacturer test fires every gun before it goes out the door....but never heard of the 40 round minimum.

My glock came with two casings indicating that the firearm had been test fired at the factory.
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Those two casings aren't actually to indicate test fire, they're required by some US states for gun ID. The two cases, were you to live in a US state with a case registry system, would be submitted to the state government before the gun was sold to you. In Canada, we don't have such a system so we receive the case with the two brass in it still.
 
Ardent said:
Those two casings aren't actually to indicate test fire, they're required by some US states for gun ID. The two cases, were you to live in a US state with a case registry system, would be submitted to the state government before the gun was sold to you. In Canada, we don't have such a system so we receive the case with the two brass in it still.
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Interesting...

How to tell the difference between cases? How does the govt know I won't just give them two cases that were fired from my gun after the fact? Or any two casings for that matter?
 
I had a Ruger GP100 at one time that I bought new and it came with spent casings; if I'm not mistaken I then read in its manual they were actual casings from test firing as they were required to do so at the factory.
 
Onagoth said:
Interesting...

How to tell the difference between cases? How does the govt know I won't just give them two cases that were fired from my gun after the fact? Or any two casings for that matter?
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You would never even see them, the distributor when the gun enters the state would be required to pull them, and register them to the serial number with the state government. They're just left in because it's not a requirement here, same for if you lived in a state without the requirement. They test fire every gun anyhow, and just include two of the cases for use in gun ID registry systems with every gun shipped to keep it simple. I do believe the registries of cases in some states (California is a likely example) use digital scans of the cases to avoid having to store and organize all those cases, rendering a searchable digital database. Cases have distinguishing striations that can often be slimmed down to a single gun, and differentiate between two guns of the same model, a serial number apart as well. Not CSI cheese, just reality.

And no, to the OP, never heard of 40 rounds, I know Savage fire 5 rounds out of each of their rifles, many makers probably do similar if not less. It's a cost and they're in the business of making money.
 
Maybe 4 or 5 years ago in WSS. More recently a smaller shop here in Alberta (was a member of CGN) was selling NIB rifles that had something wrong with their chambers (not sure what) as "actions + stock" needing to be rebarreled. I am not sure if they were sold from the distributor as such or if they had come back from customers. This was under 1.5 years ago.
 
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