Name your biggest POS handguns.

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AMT Govt. Looked real nice, had great features, even accurate to boot. Jammamajormastermatic! Sent back to AMT for rework and returned to me slightly better! Even used hot UZI ammo to "break it in" as AMT put it. About a thousand rounds after it was bought, it was toast. No feelings for that thing, just regrets that I ever wasted my time and effort with it. Replaced with Colt Mark IV that remains to this day, flawless.
 
I've never owned a bad handgun to date, they've all functioned flawlessly after thousands upon thousands of rounds. I've only had 7 malfunctions in my personally owned and maintained weapons in the 5 years I have owned handguns.

HOWEVER -
The Smith and Wesson Model 41 I used as part of the NROTC Pistol Team was a jam-o-matic. However - this wasn't the fault of the firearm, it was weak springs (all of them) in my personal opinion. Nothing wrong once I swapped out springs.
 
I had an Iver-Johnson TP22 that I really liked, but the damn thing couldn't make it through a magazine without at least one light primer strike. The problem was experienced across many different brands of ammo and degees of cleanliness. It's a shame because it was handy and accurate, when it would fire.

A friend of mine has a couple of TP22s, a "picky" one and a "good" one. When they're good, they're really good. Unfortunately, that only seems to happen half the time.
 
Astra Constable in .380 functioned great, would not feed hollow points though, but the grouping was like 8 inches at 15 yrds terrible accuracy.
 
I bought an FEG .22 auto which was nice looking, and very thin. Cannot recall the model number. Good ergonomics. It had a nasty habit of firing two or three rounds full-auto :what: . I never really gave it a fair chance. The dealer took it back with a full refund.

About the P-22. I have a new one, and it gave me some trouble :cuss: for a while, but with a little polishing of the ramp. slight throating of the chamber, and a few hundred mini-mags for break-in, it went through 600 rounds of cheap Remington ammo on its last outing without a glitch :) . I absolutely love this little gun--under a pound empty, and it's gong to be my new fishing buddy when I find a good shoulder rig :D . Here are some sites which might help if you still have one and it isn't reliable:

http://www.sju.edu/~bc165187/p22fixes.html

http://www.gothammarketing.com/bb/waltherforum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=48

I have around 20 Makarov pistols :eek: , Soviet, Bulgarian, East German and Chinese. They all work well. Most problems with these guns are the result of cosmoline in the extractor assembly, which for some reason people are afraid to disassemble :eek: . These guns have 27 parts, and are the easiest auto to detail strip. (Maybe there's an easier one, but I have never seen one.) CB
 
Glock 36 couldnt hit broad side of barn with it was a trade in when i bought it like new no wonder .. sold it within 4 weeks or so to another dealer
 
No Doubt: Ruger P345
FTF, FTE, slam shut, weak mag springs, wouldn't feed hollow points, Jamjamjamjamjam...
It feels too good in my hand to be used as a throwing weapon.
It just made me like CZ all the more.

Though, in Ruger's defense, the later models do seem more reliable.
 
Smith & Wesson .380 Sigma !@#^&!*! A gun that should have never been made! Do not even think of picking up one if you happen to see one on a table at a gunshow.....run!
 
Luckily...never had a

POS firearm...but I'm real surprised about all the Para Ordnance problems mentioned in this thread, as I carry a P12-45 everyday as a CCW.
And, when I go to the range, the last thing I do is run a mag thru it...load it back up...and reholster. I would imagine it has at least a thousand rounds of FMJ and HP's thru it.
:evil:
 
CZ-75B S/A,i broke the plastic
trigger twice before selling it
to a friend.

Beretta 9000S DAO,i bought it
after shooting a 92 DAO and
loved that trigger but the
9000S trigger was 15-16lbs.
 
Ruger MarkII was the biggest POS I have ever seen. It literally had every kind of jam and misfire you could ever imagine. Stove pipse, Nose dived, sent rounds out of the magazine into the air with multiple mags, light primer strikes. The gun was not ever right. I sold it for a Sig Trailslide and never looked back.
 
Here's a blast from the past- a POS Intratec CAT 9. I thought it would be the answer to a slimline Glock. Not. I believe the tech that built this one was named Murphy- because if it could, it would go wrong. I sent it back to the factory. 3 months later I inquired as to the status of the gun, they advised that it had been shipped out over 2 months before. On a hunch, I checked with a guy with the same name (different middle initial) as mine, he had it. They shipped it right to his house. Right to his address. Ask me how it happened, I don't have a clue. All the info was sent with the gun. I still laugh about this train wreck from time to time. I'll miss that gun- a heck of a conversation piece.
 
Mine was a Taurus .44mag revolver. I had every imaginable problem with that gun. When the frame cracked, I cut it in half and threw it away.
 
Das spray that BM's innards with gunscrubber and soak it overnight (leave it outside). Mine had alot of crud in it that wasn't apparent until it soaked for awhile. Better yet, if you feel up to it detail strip it.
 
A Ruger Mk. II "Target."

It had adjustable sites and an extractor that didn't, and a trigger pull that was anything but what should be on a target pistol. Probably somewhere around nine or ten lbs. and felt like someone had thrown sand into trigger mechanism- even after having put several thousand rounds downrange with it.
 
Biggest or should I say littlest POS I ever bought was a Bryco .380.
I still have the anchor weight but I took off the trigger and removed the firing pin and broke and threw away the internals so nowould could ever fire this POS and hurt themselves like I almost did....

2nd POS I had was a Beretta Tomcat.32...
While it was a way better built gun than the Bryco it didnt want to feed or eject the shells like it should have so I traded it for a Taurus model 85 .38 special and have never looked back....
The Taurus has been a great little snubby so far......drf
 
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