RancidSumo
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It is amusing that you criticize a "sample of one" when that is what everyone raves about over on ToddG's worship site of the HK P30. I guess some people are easily impressed when they want to positively adopt the same flimsy level of proof they use to reject the things they don't want. After all, using samples of one, the HK P30 is God's gift to handgunnery and by comparison the M&P a piece of dreck that became unsafe to fire in just over half as many rounds down range.
This is not to mention that we're talking, from his past writings about the PX-4's development, about a likely disgruntled ex-employee of Beretta, one who is in fact spreading anecdotal "information," and who could, but does not, acquire a PX-4 and try to take it to 100k rounds himself to show the world what garbage it is.
Where's that grain of salt at? Oh yeah, next to the mallet I have never needed when firing a PX-4, any more than I have needed the JB Weld for the ejection window cracking on my M&P 9's slide.
So now you are questioning a well respected firearms instructors integrity with nothing to back it up. I wasn't aware that kind of stuff passed as "high road" although I admittedly haven't been around in a while so perhaps standards have slipped.
He has seen more than a sample of one for starters (read where he went to train Canadian police). Also, as to the P30 being a sample of one, anyone who is actually concerned about their firearm being reliable is not going to just see his sample and call it good to go. They are going to look for the opinions of trainers such as LAV and others in the industry and see what they have to say about them. When these trainers say that a firearm is gtg, it is after seeing many more samples than any of us ever will. Also, look into which police forces have adopted which firearm. When the only major departments to adopt the PX4 dump it because of its reliability issues, that is called a clue.
So what your post boils down to is challenging without reason a person's integrity, attacking my comment about a sample of one with a complete strawman, and overall just sour grapes that the handgun you are trying to defend has proven to be an unreliable design.