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Even with "provenance" you have to be careful. Everyone has a story, whether its true or not is impossible to say. Reputation is everything and a lot of the time you just never know... lots of people may truly believe its a legit part then you always have the hucksters trying to rip people off and their are plenty of those in the 2nd Amendment community as we all well know.

I second Dan's advice. Kahr should make it right. In addition, there are many subtle problems that Kahr will not address which Dan can spot, since he is experienced with the myriad of machining flaws that come with these guns off the line. Knowing where Kahr makes shortcuts is more than half the battle. Mine once broke a firing pin, and Dan identified and internal step which placed a side load on the firing pin as it move forward. After many cycles, fatigue from impact would take its toll and snap off the pin. The rear sight on my rifle was replaced with an original Lyman sight from a WWII lend lease Thompson from Russia, and the screws were abandoned in favor of iron rivets in my shop. Yeah, it's like putting a diamond on a pig, but mine was a project gun, and had as many improvements made to it as the rifle originally cost.

Straight back to kahr, ask for a new one, then send it to me to slink it up. You shouldn't have to pay me to get it apart, though I am intrigued by what's got it stuck. Maybe the pawl is jammed up. Does the trigger move? If the grip screw goes to far up into the trigger area that can jam parts also.

I think this is the third proclaimed "New Old Stock" Colt barrel that have surfaced in the last 2-3 months. That's three more than I've heard of in the last three years. There were a couple guy's that used to set up at every Knob Creek, and they always had a NOS Colt barrel, or so they claimed. Without any provenance, I personally have reservations of any of them being original Colt. Just my 2 cents