When someone refers to a gun as a demo gun, what exactly can you expect?

[kdoggy]

I'm getting a GLOCK 23 Gen 3 from a guy and I was original told it would be a LEO trade in but that it was fired very little.

The guns in transit from one dealer to another dealer now, then being shipped to my local FFL.

I asked for some pictures and the FFL I'm getting it from said he spoke to the FFL who is sending it to him and that the gun was described as looking new in the box and that it was actually a demo gun, not one used by law enforcement.

What does that normally mean? Demo as in show and not fired? Fired but very little, 1,000,000 rounds, lol. I've not heard of it termed like that.

I know in my business a demo is the model we show people, let people test, and is never sold but as a gun store generally when you look at a gun, 6,000 other people have handled it and if you say I'll take one, that's the one you get. They don't exactly keep demo's on hand.

[kss1077]

could be a gun a salesman carried a to show, i got a glock that was sent as a demo to a police department and all they did was field strip it, wasn't fired.

[Dandapani]

I bought a S/W 686+ in SS that was a sales guy demo gun. "Used" but unfired. Had the sweetest trigger, from all the dry firing I guess. Was a but scuffed, but no real bumps or scratches. Still had the warranty card in the box.

[DANGELO]

Rental guns or shelf-guns can be expected to have thousands of rounds thru them. Demo guns are usually pampered and dry fired LOTS leaving them with a pretty sweet finish (constant finger-print removal with silicone cloth) and a NICE trigger, depending on the gun.

I have shot at some nice rental 'houses' and a few kept track of the rounds thru certain guns, the G17L I was shooting at the time was one of them. They only let me shoot their PMC thru it, and they jotted down that I was shooting 2 boxes (100rnds) thru it. I asked what they did special to each gun in the 'cage' and the answer surprised me...Just like the guy at S&W's Shooting Center said...Three or four strokes down the tube with lubed brush, and quick shot with a scrubber, then a wipe down and back in the cage! He figured that the G17L had on the order of 250,000 rounds thru it, and that as far as he new, no one did anything other than change the spring/rod assy a few times.

Not too shabby.

DON'T buy a rimfire Demo / Rental gun...Bad to dryfire!

R/S