Quick Trijicon ACOG ?

[5pins]

Your friend should call trijicon and make sure that they have the correct ser#. He then should wait until he is contacted by the government or if possible get the contact info for the agency handling the investigation. If the place that sold him the will not refund him the money he can take them to small claims court.

He should not sell it. He has already been informed that it is likely stolen and if he sold it he could be charged with selling stolen gov property and interfering with an investigation. He would also be responsible for paying back the person he sold it to.

[JSantoro]

Best COA is to stand ready to fling that shop under the churning wheels of the semi-truck that's hurtling down the road, in the form of being ready to fully cooperate with the investigation.

He has verifiable bona-fides from the manufacturer indicating that that shop trafficed in stolen goods, and that he made the purchase in good faith.

Checking with the Sheriff isn't really due-diligence, since they can only check on stuff reported as stolen. That's not the same as "fell of the truck" items. Good GCGs, the ones familiar with what they sell, know what may or may not be gov't-purchased items, that manufacturers have records of serialized gear sold to such entities, and check with those cats, too.

I'm not a lawyer, and gynecology is only a hobby, but I get the strong feeling that he's got a fairly good lock on a civil suit against the shop (caveat follows!), if only to make good on the bad sale IF it turns out that they're otherwise unwilling to do so on their own and IF they aren't compelled/required to make good on sales to customers who were purchasing in good faith, as part of avoiding or mitigating any penalties stemming from the inevitable criminal investigation. EDIT: Consulting an attorney would be the best way to discover what, if any, recourse may be available.

Bottom line, he'd best keep that thing in his posession IOT turn it in to authorities as required, and would do well to investigate what recourse against the shop he may have. It's almost undoubtedly going to be a pain in the crank, but it already IS a pain in the crank, so that's not new territory. He ought to see what he needs to do the keep the pain in his crank limited to the least severity and duration he possibly can. Having the receipt and the device, and keeping both, will go a loooong way toward that.

If he hasn't already, he should give some serious thought to cooperating fully with the investigation, and immediately informing Trijicon of his intent to do so. Don't even TALK to the gun store; somebody else with some sort of badge will be doing that.

This definitely sucks, but trying to deal with the gun store or trying to sell the thing off in a misguided attempt to recoup monetary losses will almost certainly make it suck WAY more than it has to.

It has the warranty card with it because a warranty card comes with those things; you can never tell who's gonna throw away what when these things are fielded/received by the owning unit. Gov't-purchased items have a wannanty (usually little different than standard, but whether it's dependent upon manufacturing date or the date of receipt by the owning unit is a matter of how the contract is written), and that those warrenties are exercised...sooo, there's a card, OR a blurb in the manual, OR something else.

Wish your buddy good luck from us. It certainly blows

Gents, this isn't the same as discussing a newspaper article about some investigation; if an active investigation isn't open yet, it's sure as hell gonna be. The thread needs to close, sorry.