If a gun you have malfunctions, would you retire it....

[Nicky Santoro]

Personally, I'd consider it a challenge and work on it until it was 100%. I've had a few that were difficult but yet to find one irredeemable.

 

[.38 Special]

Would you junk your car because it needed a repair?

Would you trust your life to a car that has never been reliable and keeps breaking down, when you have plenty of others cars in the garage? (That's not intended to be rude or combative, but to illustrate the point I think the OP is making: there probably is such a thing as a "lemon", both in the gun world and the car world.)

 

[Miami_JBT]

It depends on the firearm. I have a Springfield Arms Model 87A "gill gun" that is hit or miss. It is a tube-fed .22LR beater that I got for free from a friend. Would I retire it? Nah, it is a beater .22LR that's still fun to take to the range. Sure, it chokes sometimes. But it isn't a make or break it issue for me. It is an old .22LR from before the '68 GCA when reliability out of a consumer grade .22LR had a much lower than what we'd expect today.

Now, if it was my carry piece like my Ruger LCP Custom, GLOCK 17, or S&W Model 342Ti and they malfunctioned. That's a big issue and the gun is being "retired" to getting fixed, being sold, or becoming a range toy.

 

[Old Hobo]

A self defense firearm has to work. It has to work continually without fail.

Would you want a wife who was faithful to you most of the time?

As an aside, there are these people called "gun smiths". They repair firearms. They took a bunch of training to do this.

 

[Miami_JBT]

A self defense firearm has to work. It has to work continually without fail.

Would you want a wife who was faithful to you most of the time?

As an aside, there are these people called "gun smiths". They repair firearms. They took a bunch of training to do this.

Have you seen some of these so-called gunsmiths actuallydo things? Most of 'em today are assemblers who follow YouTube videos on how to slap together a AR. They aren't actually talented gunsmiths.

 

[herrwalther]

I had a lot of malfunctions with outdated, out of production guns that I bought while younger, dumber, and poorer. Guns that would have taken more in gunsmith or machinist fees than it would ever be worth. Those are the kind I would not bother repairing. Even as an apprentice gunsmith there are guns that would just not be worth it to repair for myself that have ended up sold.