I bought an RPR .300 PRC recently, still have not used it. EVERYTHING about it suggests it's used. When it arrived at the FFL dealer, he called to tell me the entire inside of the box was covered with styrofoam pieces. His words "looks like the styrofoam blew up". I didn't think much about until I got home and started cleaning all the little styrofoam balls from the nooks, crannies and crevasses. I put on a head lights so I could see everything as I cleaned. The bottom of the muzzle brake has scratches (not bad, but there are scratches). There are dings here and there, again, nothing bad (but dings on a new gun?). Tonight, I pulled the gun out just to look it over again as it's bugged me thinking it might be used. When I flipped the gun upside down, I can see where it appears there was a scope mounted to the rail. Thinking back to when the gun arrived, the shipping box nor the Ruger box was damaged on the outside (how would the styrofoam be damaged?). I asked the retailer previously if this gun was used as the styrofoam encasement was ripped apart and pieces scattered about. He said "It's brand new, UPS can be rough". That was the extent of his response. What makes more sense to me is, the styrofoam was compromised by someone forcing the gun back down into the encasement. I can live with the dings, etc. but if someone damaged the gun in some way affecting its precision or firing, that's a problem. Have any of you ever had to return a gun? How does that process work, assuming I can?
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