Hope we don't cross paths on the equipment exchange!
How often do you buy a gun that's "functionally challenged" or dangerous? Now contrast that to guns that just don't shoot as well as you had hoped?
I'm not suggesting that you sell a gun in the first category. Realistically, it hasn't happened to me all that often, and the problem has always been handled by the dealer where I got the gun.
The second problem? Happens all the time! You buy a gun to use for varmints, or long range, or a specific bullet weight/load, or whatever. It doesn't produce accuracy up to the standards for which you hoped. What do you do? Spend tons of time and money trying to improve it? Maybe, if it's something special or you really like it. Otherwise, you sell it.
And just for the record, we won't likely cross paths on the exchange. I buy virtually all my guns from a few favourite dealers, and sell them the same way. These are businesses I trust, who have treated me fairly and honestly, and I respond in kind. When I sell or, more likely, trade guns in, I make no bones about their good points and their bad ones. On the rare occasions that I sell or buy from a private individual, it's always someone I know and trust well...and who knows and trusts me. I did one internet deal, and while it didn't turn out to be the horror show that it might have been, I won't be doing that again.
Good luck on the equipment exchange.
