... and that's just ridiculous. Even at $15 a box for burner ammunition, that's $60, and at today's prices it's closer to $90 (if you can find it at all), for something that should have been done at the point of manufacture.

Kahr, I'm looking at you, but you're not the only one I've heard needs some rounds before the factory will do anything for you. Granted, I'll put some rounds through it anyway before I'm sure it's reliable, but I want 200 rounds with no problems, so that's another $90 on top of the first batch if there were any bobbles.

My K9 (ca 1997) didn't require any break-in, and neither did my Browning HP, so the plants can build them to shoot out of the box, if they want. They just choose to shift the costs to us.