I don't know if it is the same gun or not but from what I gather of the story is that before the present owner bought it, it had not been honed out . To me that would indicate the barrels wouldn't have been that thin while it was on the shelf for sale. At the time of purchase it appears the owner noticed pitting and had the dealer remove the pitting. This was when the metal was removed. It sounds like the dealer did measure it because the buyer was told it is within acceptable limits after the honing but it sounds like he wasn't given specific measurements from the dealer. If he was given specific measurements from the dealer, then one questions why the buyer would have completed the deal. If they did not measure it , then they just took a guess at telling him it was acceptable which is very poor business practice. So, was the buyer told the actual measurements at the time of sale?