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July 25th, 2017 at 6:24 pm
How about info on counterfeit hyperlinks? Because I think that’s one of them.
July 25th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
lol. fixed.
July 25th, 2017 at 11:42 pm
My son bought a ‘Leopold’ at a hockshop for 80 bucks.
When he showed it to me I couldn’t stop laughing.
He did get his money back and the pawnshop owner was pissed he got took.
July 26th, 2017 at 5:04 pm
Forty or so years in the pawn business, albeit on the upscale side, I’ve bought and sold a few thousand Rolex watches and probably twenty thousand firearms. It’s no trick for me to spot fake watches but the chinks know that and have started to make small components that require disassembly and close scrutiny to catch, tiny parts that are worth hundreds of dollars if genuine. This is why I don’t sell Rolexes on flea-bay anymore, as unscrupulous buyers will buy a watch, change out parts, and return the watch which I am required to accept under the flea’s idiotic rules, or resell it to a third party which if discovered later can come back on me for liability.
Same thing is certainly possible with gun parts and while I haven’t seen it (dropped FFL a while back), there’s crooks everywhere on both sides of the counter, so as shown with the watch problem, it’s a case of both caveat emptor and caveat venditor.
FWIW, it seems unlikely that a pawnshop that deals in guns and accessories didn’t know he was selling knockoff scopes, misspelled brand name and all, but it is very likely that smaller, more difficult to spot and more critical fake parts will become more of a problem…internal mechanical parts could have a lot worse repercussions (heh) and liability in shootin’ irons than in watches, and used/vintage/collectible guns would be very susceptible to that.
Y’all be careful out there.
July 27th, 2017 at 11:09 am
I blame the China knock off on the companies doing business with China. Look at Magpul. They admit they got took. They sent the molds over there and now everyone has them. My understanding on optics is say a company like Leopold only accepts 1 out of 10 prisms made there. The other 9 are supposed to be destroyed. In China destroyed means the recycling plant next door that takes those that don’t meet standards and make copies. That’s why some of the Chinese clones look so good. And if you knew how bad it is with military aircraft components you’d be sick.
The only thing we sent to China that wasn’t copied is Nixon.