New Inland encounter...

[Bruce McAskill]

There was a know firearms writer who was on another forum. He praised the "New Inlands" as a huge improvement over the worn out original USGI carbines. He claimed he examined then and fired them finding them very accurate. Well he kept talking about them on this forum he was on and then I started to note that there were some people who were having problems with the new carbines on other forums. So I asked him about this and could he help some of these people get the warranty work done on them as he seemed to be well involved with Inland. Well he jumped all over me about anyone having any problems with the New Inlands. If they did then it was caused by them and not the company. I then found out that Jim Mock had an on going problem with the new Inland he had bought. So after talking with Jim I went back to that other forum and laid out the facts. This writer came back claiming that it could not happen as to what was claimed. Then someone else on the forum came in and said that he also had a new Inland was having the same problems. The writer said he would check with Inland and that was the last heard from him. Then the President of the New Inland came on the forum and said yes they had a few teething problems but they were working hard to correct them and if someone had a problem then just contact customer service and they would fix the problem ASAP. Well guess what, oh go ahead and guess. Yup your right. Nothing happened and one gentlemen who sent his back had been smart enough to mark the carbine so he could tell if it had been apart. The carbine came back as fixed and was feeding fine. As soon as he could he went out and it did the exact same thing. He had checked the markings and they had not been removed by taking the carbine out of the stock so he knew they were full of a lot of BS. The President of Inland never ever came back to that forum. So if your thinking of buying a new Inland then think long and hard before you do. And know that the problems with AO and they still have them, also apply with Inland as they use a number of parts from AO.