I'm with you I thought all got test fired before boxed?? I think every New Ruger I've bought came with the casing from the test fire?? I may be wrong? Hope they get it or another back to you soon with an apology ($200 gift card would be nice lol)
They stopped doing that a few years ago. That was for sale in NY (maybe CA or IL as well?), where a fired case had to be sent to the cops when you registered a gun. They realized that storing all that brass was costing them millions, and since there was no way to actually match it up to brass found at a crime scene, it was totally useless.
I'm pretty sure NY rescinded that law 2-3 years back, and since then guns really don't need to be fired except for QC...
Hopefully they will send the OP something decent to make up for it. Mine's on order and I'm hoping to have it in a few days...