That's scary and weird. I can't imagine why any one would load ammo into a weapon for sale. My only Christmas gun was a 12 gauge J.C. Higgins Model 20 pump (High Standard Flite King) shotgun with Cutts Compensator and choke tubes when I was about 12-13. My skinny frame took a beating, but you wouldn't here me complain when we went goose hunting. I traded it for something in my twenties, but I ran across one of choke tubes not long ago.J.R.@A&M wrote:I was reminiscing from another post about buying guns at Gibsons, etc. retail stores. It reminded me of a scary story from Christmas 1972. I was ten years old. We exchanged gifts on Christmas Eve, but Santa came Christmas morning. So that morning I ran into my grandparent's dining room to find the magical cache of Santa gifts. To my utter delight/amazement, there was a Remington Model 581 .22 LR rifle. I was fondling it while siblings and other relatives stood by. Naturally, part of my fondling including working the bolt action, whereupon I noticed a round going into the breech. Whoops. I alerted Dad ("Um... Dad, this rifle is loaded."). We cleared the breech, then opened the tubular magazine to find at least a half dozen rounds in this baby. Dad was as mad as a dad-lawyer can get over a dangerous and potentially catastrophic act of negligence on somebody else's part. At this point, all the pretense of Santa's elves went out the window. It was quickly apparent that this rifle was bought at Oshman's Sporting Goods in Houston. I wasn't there for the Judgement Day, but I can only imagine what Dad told the Oshman's manager.
Anyway, the moral of the story is the same: treat every gun like it is loaded, even if it is new out of the box.
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