Do you totally trust new handguns?

[Ed]

I'm not gonna make up some strange scenario, because ther is really not one, but is there any handgun that you would feel good about trusting your life to without ever firing it? I mean straight from the box to the fight? I know 99.9% of people would test it first, and you should, but if you had to, what would you pick if any? I mean Semi Autos. I guess I'd have to go with Glock. Though my first love is not Glocks.

 

[psyopspec]

is there any handgun that you would feel good about trusting your life to without ever firing it?

No. Every brand produces a melon now and then. Without testing a firearm I would automatically assume the worst if I had to make my life depend on it.

 

[Ala Dan]

If I was forced too pick one, well it would be a SIG classic P-series
along the lines of a .45 caliber P220A; or a P228. However, I'm like
eveyone else, I like to test drive 'em before I carry~

 

[valor1]

I would trust a brand new handgun after I've tried shooting with it. Shooting the gun will not only tell you how reliable it is, but also how good you can shoot with it. Bringing a brand new gun to a situation that will require a gun is just plain crazy if you haven't tested it or isn't familiar with it yet. Even the most reputable manufacturers produce lemons from time to time. Well, if the situation is just like in a movie where you suddenly find yourself cooped up in a sporting goods store while some zombies are attacking, I'll definitely go for the shotgun and all the handguns and ammo I can carry. Sory, I just dreamt of Resident Evil last night.

 

[glocker1911]

Any gun, regardless of maufacturer, should be tested because, as noted above, anybody can "let one slip thru". That being said, I personally would feel confident with a new Glock that I hadn't had a chance to break in yet. I've yet to see a failure right out of the box with any new Glock.

 

[Ford]

there is no gun I would bet my life with before ever shooting it. Glocks included.
Glocks are good guns and I am not trying to bash them but there is a lot of hype around this brand.
I have owned 4 glocks. 3 of them ran fine. One was a jamomatic. My buddy at work won't even look at a Glock. ( which I don't really agree with.) becasue his first ever semi-auto was a glock 17 and it would fail more than it wold fire.
there is a chance that ANY gun can come from the manufacturer with defect. I don't want to take that chance.

 

[Fatelvis]

If I had to pick one, it would be a Sig 220, or 226.

 

[cslinger]

SIG, Glock or Beretta. I would be reasonably comfortable with any of those. Course if it were me it'd be a SIG since I am not a Glock or Beretta fan.

Chris

 

[1 old 0311]

Any wheel gun. No auto.

Kevin

 

[Black Majik]

Nope. Definitely not.

I gotta make sure it works before trusting it. There is just so much more of a piece of mind knowing your gun works.

 

[joab]

If it's a man made mechanical device it's predisposed to fail

But if I had to pick it would be a revolver

 

[Bobby Lee]

I would take a 9mm Glock first choice.

Or any Glock over any 1911.

 

[gudel]

I trust my HK. I know they work, and 3 of them have never let me down with feeding, firing and extraction. I'll take my HK over any 1911.

 

[Soap]

You could hand me a 60's S&W revolver, a Glock 19, or a $4K handbuilt 1911 and I wouldn't trust any of them. Guns are machines that are prone to flaws.

 

[BryanP]

Absolutely not.



(Unless it was a SIG)



But seriously. No. Not without testing it.

 

[CZF]

In 9mm CZ first..Glock and Ruger.
.45 i'll take a SIG, CZ with Hardballl

 

[1911Tuner]

Trust

Nope. Not a pistol...Not a double-action revolver...Not a single-action revolver...Not a single-shot scattergun. Trusting a weapon without a test run is for good knives and baseball bats.

 

[grimjaw]

One

A single shot, breakdown .22 rifle loaded with CB's is the only thing I would trust without having fired it first. I'd have less distrust of a revolver than I would an automatic, but either would be avoided.

jmm

 

[Ed]

Believe me guys, I wouldn't trust one either...Ok I am forced into dumb scenario time....You are unarmed in a store selling just NEW Semi Autos. You see a grandmother being beaten outside and have to pick one gun to save her and you. What will it be. You don't have your own gun..

 

[psyopspec]

If I was forced too pick one, well it would be a SIG classic P-series
along the lines of a .45 caliber P220A; or a P228.

Ironic you should say that. Before owning a SIG classic P-series (a 229 in 9mm) I'd have answered "yes" to this thread - that I would take stake my life on a gun as long as it was from Glock, HK, or SIG. Having owned a melon SIG, I can say with confidence that there's always the "Friday afternoon gun" that goes through the line, and I will not, without test-firing, trust my life to any firearm from any manufacturer without making sure it works on my own.

 

[Surefire]

Never. Even if it fires, the sights could be way off out-of-the-box. I've seen this happen. New gun has its sights bent from traveling in the box I assume, and the first time I shoot it its shooting way off.


Always test a gun before trusting it, IMO.

 

[deputy tom]

NO. I don't even trust a folding knife without testing.tom.

 

[Rockstar]

The chances of a Glock 17 failing right out of the box is just about zero, ASSUMING the shooter is familiar with Glocks and has a record of successfully firing them in the past.

 

[glocker1911]

And with all this talk of guns being manmade mechanical objects, let's not forget that applies to the guns that HAVE been tested/broken in also. Just because your favorite ccw pistol has shot the last 10,000 rounds with zero malfuctions, doesn't mean the next time you shoot it won't be when that manmade, mechanical piece inside of it decides to give up the ghost. Nothing is certain, even with a proven track record. I stand by my statement. Not counting revolvers (which I don't care for) I would trust a brand new Glock 17 right out of the box with no second thoughts.

 

[stevelyn]

Glocks are the only ones I would trust out of the box without test firing assuming that all the parts are there and installed correctly.