The POI shift/FX guns are delicate myth was dispelled a couple years ago, based on personal experience. I sold an FX Maverick in .30 caliber to the BIL of a member here. The gun was in a TSA rated hard case, and that case was in a cardboard box. Unfortunately for me, UPS had just taken away the hourly increase it gave part-time workers during COVID, so lots of unhappy employees.
The package and gun I shipped in pristine condition had been dropped so hard barrel end down, that the barrel came through the hard case. Before the buyer even told me about the damage, he called his BIL who knew a lot about FX guns. He told the buyer how to pull the barrel. What happened is the barrel was jammed backward so hard that it broke the roll pin in the block that the transfer port of the barrel sits, and it deformed the hole in the block where the pin sits.
The guy polished the transfer port and glued the pin in best as he could and shot it. It shot so well that even though I offered him a full refund, he wanted to keep it. He would not even let UPS come and pick up the gun and take it for inspection because he was afraid he would not get that gun back. I had to work the UPS claim with only pictures he provided (I will NEVER do that again, the only remedy is a full refund). I did MONTHS of work to get a $725 refund, all of which went to the buyer for the parts to repair the gun.
Whoever started the lie that FX guns are fragile or delicate, must be laughing at the traction this fairytale has received.
