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Post by mrxhillbilly on Sept 12, 2017 7:47:51 GMT -5
If a reputable gunsmith has had your gun for over two years and will not return your correspondence and you just want your rifle back, what do you do?
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Post by cmh on Sept 12, 2017 7:51:35 GMT -5
I would send them a letter they must sign for informing them that unless this is settled and your property sent back to you legal action will pursue. It is sad but we keep seeing more and more of this.....
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Post by bula on Sept 12, 2017 8:08:36 GMT -5
With so many means of contact now, pursue them all. Some people are not phone people, some ignore e-mail, etc.. Do they have a web site, facebook presence ? The registered letter idea seems a good one to me too. At some later point in this difficulty, we'd like to know who..but not yet.
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Post by mrxhillbilly on Sept 12, 2017 14:20:58 GMT -5
They do have a website. I'm going to try the registered mail approach next.
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Post by chantico on Sept 20, 2017 15:47:34 GMT -5
I had a similar problem Finally had to get the loca PD make a visit to investigate. Anything involving a gun gets LE attention these days. If necessary ask BATFE to investigate if the local PD doesn't help. It's the nuclear option, and sometimes required when a gunsmith goes rogue like mine did and was selling customer guns out the back door! He may still be in jail...
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Post by bigbrowndog on Sept 20, 2017 16:08:25 GMT -5
Or drive over yourself, or someone you trust. A face to face meeting works wonders, even if it's not your face.
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Post by dhd on Sept 21, 2017 9:43:21 GMT -5
There have been many of these types of threads over the last 10 years or so with social media being so prevalent. A guy (maybe a real gunsmith maybe not) builds a few good rifles, it gets posted somewhere, and the guy gets flooded with more work than he can possibly do (figure that in with paperwork, inventory, answering correspondence, you name it) and work backs up. Sometimes they'll finish "big name" customers ahead of yours, and now your stuff is still in a bin a few years later. Some of these guys get run out of the business legally and some cut their losses and hang the old shingle up somewhere else and do it again.
Sucks big time! I've been lucky so far that I only really need chamber work on my rifles.
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