If you acquire a non compliant Ma firearm and it needs to be serviced or repaired under warranty, what do you do?
I was told by S&W they will not send a non compliant firearm to a Ma address if it is sent in to their service dept. I believe Sig said the same thing.
I do think they could and would send it to a FFL though.
why do I ask? I see a few Sig 365's for sale and wondering what would happen if the firing pin failed since this is a problem with some of them.
Most companies don't actually care unless its a situation where they decide to replace the entire gun or replace the frame, at which point you have to get creative. (and before someone
jumps my shit on this, I know the manuf is allowed to do this without involving an FFL if they reserialed the frame, but in actual practice, NOBODY allows or does this. ) The thing is though,
most handgun repairs don't involve this unless your frame is actually broken... although Glock replaced an entire gun for me once.
Did you actually try to do this, or did you ask the question to their service dept as a prophylactic sort of measure vs a "bounce?"
One thing you learn in MA garbage land is, most of the time, the less you talk about compliance/legal BS, the better off you are. For example meatheads that call up MA dealers and go into a swan
song and dance about compliance with regards to transferring in a firearm are probably far more likely to get blown off by the dealer...
EG:
Normal gun owner: "A good friend of mine says you guys do transfers, I want to transfer in a (specific model X) can you help me out with that?"
versus the nails on the chalkboard edition...
Mindless obeisant MA downtrodden gun owner speak: "I wanna transfer in an X but I'm not sure if we can do that or not because it might not be complyiant because this one doesnt have the safety on the side and no LCI its on the list but I dont know if its on the ags secret list and so wah lah blah blah blah"
When I hear people doing the 2nd thing, I think of that meme with the 4 year old ghetto kid going "shut da f*** up!" etc...
If there's a compliance issue the dealer or remote cares about, they will
ask you about it, just be specific without going full retard.
Note: I'm not necessarily accusing you of doing this, just alerting you that the "downtrodden gun owner MA mindset" is cancerous and counterproductive to your own good most of the time...
This same shit used to happen with ammo vendors. Smart people just placed an order and would see what happened. Numbskulls would call up the vendor and start going "Do you guyz ship to MA a lot of companies won't ship here blah blah blah, wah so wah lah, halp!" etc. The numbskulls may have even gotten some remotes to stop shipping here even by asking the question at all.
-Mike