Rear bolt lugs had material sloppily added to them, ruining the heat treatment through annealing and adding soft welding rod material; the resulting mess was ground flat without a jig to ensure the proper angles. The front lugs were then ground back through their hardened layer to shift the bolt's position forward in the receiver. Some bolts had only minimal contact on one lug, and many had been ground so carelessly that the edge of the bolt side was cut into, creating a dangerous shear point. These started as new bolts, and this was all done in an effort to fix major headspace issues due to cheap barrels. Many of those barrels weren't even straight.
Given all of the above, firing any of those (fake and fraudulently advertised T2) Garands was quite literally risking serious injury or death. Marstar was finally banned and removed from this forum, but to my knowledge they suffered no other consequences for putting the lives of their customers in danger and for their blatant fraud.
