The Ethics of Selling a Bad Gun?

A few years ago I sold a broken acoustic guitar to a pawn shop. It had a very visible crack that ran from soundhole to shoulder. The employee behind the counter must not have noticed the damage, because they gave me a reasonable amount (very unlike them).

This same shop had screwed me a few times, thus I've lost very little sleep over this transaction. With that being said, a guitar with evident damage is very different than a firearm with issues. A buyer can sit and play a guitar before purchase; no such option when it comes to firearms. Just a (relatively useless) thought.
 
Marked the bad mag

When I sold my Hi-point 9mm I included four mags. I stuck a note to the mag that consistently did not want to feed. It sold just fine, but then there were three good mags with the gun too so . . .

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
I sold one with an honost discussion on the issues with the gun. The issue was; you shoot it once and then throw it. The buyer thought he could live with the issues.......long story short: I ended up buying it back and it sits in the safe today.
 
I guess this will always be a dilemma for anybody selling a potential lemon but I hope baddarryl (the original poster) has figured out his particular problem by now.
 
I have a similar problem

Got a Taurus 94 that has a terrible trigger and, general concensus says, there isn't much that can be done to fix it. It sits at the bottom of my safe for fear of giving someone else my headache.
 
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