VA-ALERT: Correct and more info 10/1/14

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I left out the date for the Virginia Beach meeting on stolen gun reporting - it is THIS Saturday, October 4th. I have also corrected the zip code for the restaurant.

The second item has more information about the recall on the Model 700.

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1. Virginia Beach meeting on proposal to make it a crime for not reporting a stolen gun fast enough
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The Tidewater Libertarian Party is having a discussion of a proposal by the Virginia Beach City Council that would turn gun owners into criminals if they don’t report a stolen gun quickly enough.

City Councilman Jim Wood will be at the meeting discussing his rationale for the proposal.

The meeting is being held at:

Providence Square Grill
941 Providence Square Shopping Center (Providence at Kempsville)
Virginia Beach, VA 23464

The meeting is THIS Saturday, October 4th. Breakfast begins at 8:15 AM, followed by the meeting at 9 AM.

The meeting is open to the public.


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2. More information - RECALL NOTICE: Remington Model 700 and Model Seven
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Member Jim Busch sent me this after seeing the update item:

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I wanted to provide to you a heads up regarding my experience with the Remington recall.

The publicly available Remington online website to enter the serial number did not flag the rifle for recall when I entered the information, nor did it correctly work for Remington Customer Service when I contacted them directly. I already was aware of the the manufacturing date of the rifle, so it stymied me that the site didn't recognize such to be subject to recall, and caused me to contact Remington directly,via telephone.

Thankfully, Remington's internal system flagged my rifle. As such, I would strongly suggest anybody with a smooth trigger to not utilize the website to determine if their Models 7 or 700 are subject to recall, but instead, directly contact a Remington recall CSR.

Remington takes 10 business days for Remington to ship a box via UPS to one's door, so that one is able to pack said rifle back to ship to Remington. UPS pickup after contact with Remington, takes an additional 3 business days.

Furthermore, Remington is advising owners that recall repairs are taking 12 weeks. Remington has stated that they will provide a tool mark on the rifle receiver to indicate that the trigger work was completed.

Remington does not provide a time to ship when repairs are completed, nor the UPS shipping time after leaving the Remington.

To summarize, a recall rifle is estimated to take 14 weeks from time of contact with Remington,to time of completed repair. Shipping return is unknown at this point.




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