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Originally Posted by VM
Not Correct - I have bought numerous "Dummy guns" from an ex - S&W salesman that were completely welded up and 100% non-functional.
Here is one that I cut in half so I'd have a grip jig and it is stamped "Dummy". They made alot of these from mis-matched, defective parts.
FYI - It also had serial number removed from butt by the Factory.
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Why? It makes no sense. I can see having a cut-away, to show me - the customer - how the internals work. But a totally non-functioning gun?
Now, I've got a Rossi 92 carbine, that was sold as a "salesman's sample". It not only works, but it's slick as hell. Rossi did an action job on it before it went out, so the salesman could show it to people and say, "Look how good our rifles are".
That makes sense. Taking a regular 19 and running it through the performance center, to make it as good as it could be, and then presenting it as a "standard, off the line, Model 19" - that would make sense.
A non-functioning sample, with weld-bead all over it, would not make me want to shell out with my hard-earned money.