Horrible Martin B Retting

[pdq_wizzard]

I will never use Martin B retting ever again. They boned me hard on what should have been a simple PPT.

I had a legally configured FAL rifle with 10 round mag fixed and bullet button that was aquired from enterprise arms. Took it to retting to handle the PPT as I had sold it to a co worker of mine. employees at retting were very uneasy about handling the PPT and were unsure if they could, so they called in the manager and gunsmith to inspect my firearm. After a few minutes they both gave me the thumbs up to proceed and the salesman helping us proceeded to take down required DROS info. All seemed to be going well after receiving their approval.. or so i thought.

Next day retting calls both the seller and myself and informs us that the firearm we were trying to transfer was an illegal "assault weapon" and would be turned over to culver city PD immediately. They claim their gunsmith test fired the weapon shortly after we left and with some .308 winchester ammunition and it fired 2 rounds on the single pull of the trigger (which it only did this one time) or so they claim. So they turned in to police department.

In the end, the PD ended up "destroying" the firearm and not pressing any charges and I ended up with nothing. Beware of martin b retting.

why the **** would they be shooting a gun that is not there's? I would be so pissed I don't know what I would do.

[Big Cee]

Enterprise arms was willing to drive down that same day to pickup from retting to repair the firearm if there truly was a malfunction. retting wasnt having it.. said he could not have an illegal assualt weapon in his store and would not turn over to anyone but the police department which was already in route as we talked on the phone.

[bluesmoke9]

I've done two PPT's at Retting. The first was pretty painless. The second more recent one, not so much. I met the buyer outside the store and he told me that Retting's new policy is the two parties to a PPT CAN'T meet inside the store and inspect the gun prior to the sale. So, we try to acomplish this in the parking lot trying to be as discreet as possible. Pretty quickly an employee, a manager I assume, comes out and complains about what we're doing. I said "If we're not allowed to do this inside, where are we supposed to do it?" I didn't get an answer. So, my feeling is, if they don't want to make a PPT easy then don't do them at all.

[SDM44]

I will never use Martin B retting ever again. They boned me hard on what should have been a simple PPT.

I had a legally configured FAL rifle with 10 round mag fixed and bullet button that was aquired from enterprise arms. Took it to retting to handle the PPT as I had sold it to a co worker of mine. employees at retting were very uneasy about handling the PPT and were unsure if they could, so they called in the manager and gunsmith to inspect my firearm. After a few minutes they both gave me the thumbs up to proceed and the salesman helping us proceeded to take down required DROS info. All seemed to be going well after receiving their approval.. or so i thought.

Next day retting calls both the seller and myself and informs us that the firearm we were trying to transfer was an illegal "assault weapon" and would be turned over to culver city PD immediately. They claim their gunsmith test fired the weapon shortly after we left and with some .308 winchester ammunition and it fired 2 rounds on the single pull of the trigger (which it only did this one time) or so they claim. So they turned in to police department.

In the end, the PD ended up "destroying" the firearm and not pressing any charges and I ended up with nothing. Beware of martin b retting.

Any posts or threads on this posted here? How long ago was this? Is MBR still using the same gunsmith there?

Post seems a but suspect.

[Big Cee]

My ordeal happened about a year and a half ago. Never posted anything about it on calguns until now. I reached out to calguns foundation and davis & associates for help, but would have probably spent more in legal fees then what the rifle was worth so i let it go as a loss.

[bodger]

I will never use Martin B retting ever again. They boned me hard on what should have been a simple PPT.

I had a legally configured FAL rifle with 10 round mag fixed and bullet button that was aquired from enterprise arms. Took it to retting to handle the PPT as I had sold it to a co worker of mine. employees at retting were very uneasy about handling the PPT and were unsure if they could, so they called in the manager and gunsmith to inspect my firearm. After a few minutes they both gave me the thumbs up to proceed and the salesman helping us proceeded to take down required DROS info. All seemed to be going well after receiving their approval.. or so i thought.

Next day retting calls both the seller and myself and informs us that the firearm we were trying to transfer was an illegal "assault weapon" and would be turned over to culver city PD immediately. They claim their gunsmith test fired the weapon shortly after we left and with some .308 winchester ammunition and it fired 2 rounds on the single pull of the trigger (which it only did this one time) or so they claim. So they turned in to police department.

In the end, the PD ended up "destroying" the firearm and not pressing any charges and I ended up with nothing. Beware of martin b retting.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Why the hell were they firing the damn thing at all? The gunsmith and the manager gave the "thumbs up" for the transfer, and then went and fired the thing? For what? To see if it was full auto? They could have determined that without firing it if that's what they were worried about.

That defies explanation, they were firing it to see if on the off chance it was FA or would malfunction and fire two rounds on one trigger pull? Did they offer any explanation as to why they were firing it all?

Just bizarre. I'd like to hear what Retting's has to say about this.