It is claimed that EVERY firearm manufacturer shoots EVERY NEW FIREARM before its boxed up and shipped to a retailer. It appears that most manufacturers state that they fire a MINIMUM of three rounds in every new rifle built. Some think that it is the reason why new barrels need cleaning. Cosmoline
of one type or another is used by some manufacturers, (Krieger barrels, Winchester/Browning) including the military and others. There are other substances to stop corrosion in a rifle barrel that may set on a rack or in a box for who knows how long, that's applied by the manufacturer. Cosmoline is still being used and is not antiquated.
First one has to realize the legalities. If you call, say Savage, and ask them if they test fire each new firearm, what would you expect their answer would be?
Every day someone, somewhere, is trying to eliminate our 2nd Amendment rights. Every day. When a person calls Savage and asks the question, Savage has no clue who they are talking with. They have no clue rather it's a "John Doe", or someone that may be from the ATF, or any of the anti-gun groups. They have no clue who's calling. They have no clue if it's some attorney seeking information for a possible lawsuit.
It's a lot like politics................... Tell them what you want them to know, not what you know. Of course, every one of the manufacturers are going to say, 'Every rifle is test fired'. It's to cover their ask legally.
Think about the inventory of all the different calibers, gauges, etc., that each firearm manufacturer must have in order to fire 3 rounds in each firearm built. I don't know, but can you imagine the magazine they must have for storage of all those rounds???
Let's take a look at some data...........
So, if there are 26,780 firearms produced in the U.S. each day, then there must be at minimum
80,340 rounds fired by the manufacturers daily in the U.S.
Of the 9,772,259 firearms built in 2023, that would mean that at minimum, manufacturers fired
29,316,777 test rounds in a year's time.
Lots of questions to be asked.
80,340 rounds fired daily is one heck of a cost, not only for the testing ammunition, but also for cleaning a fired firearm, storage, labor, etc.
Yes, they'll function test, but live fire every rifle built? BS
How about it, we're buying "used firearms"....................