Simple things gun makers can do to improve their guns

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I would like to see Ruger polishing their revolvers better to take off the sharp edges. This is primarily on the trigger and hammer but also on ecposed parts of the frame in the grip area. It wouldn't cost much to make this simple improvement compared to having a gunsmith do it and then you can ruin the finish on the frame. So it doesn't happen for me.
 
Include additional magazines with the firearm without increasing the price. At least three would be ideal, two is rather skimpy and only including one is inexcusable. (I'm looking at you, Ruger.)
 
I'd like to be a beta tester. If a gun can survive one month with me, then it is ready for anything anyone else can throw at it.
 
Miked7762 said:
Include additional magazines with the firearm without increasing the price. At least three would be ideal, two is rather skimpy and only including one is inexcusable. (I'm looking at you, Ruger.)
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This too. One is only acceptable for a budget version of a more expensive handgun where it is marketed as a budget version. Two for anything $500-$1000 is a minimum and three if you want to be able to market the gun as a package.

Also, a decent case that is lockable would be nice. I would rather the old boxes than some crap plastic case the gun rattles around in.
 
I would be happy if they would make them work. I just bought 2 Taurus pistol & both were DOA & there is a 4 weak turn around because there is so many bad ones out there.

I was thinking of buying a third because I wanted the TCP but I think I have been burnt enough on Taurus. I am considering the Kel Tec now but I hate to buy another junk gun.

I don't need them to get any lighter but I do like smaller. They are so light now that I don't shoot as well with them.
 
Internal gun locks.

A total waste of time and money for 99% of gun owners.

Fit and finish could always be better. Is it that hard to make something that feels good to the touch?

Sights are something else that always seems like they could be improved upon. There is a huge aftermarket sight business because most factory ones suck.
 
+1 fit and finish. I don't want nor expect the days of hand-polished, hand-fitted Pythons to return, but fer Chrissakes, if a bunch of robots can make a well-fitting car then a bunch of humans should be able to make a well-fitting gun that isn't a monument to mold lines, flashings, rough edges, gritty machining and out-of-alignment parts.

It's kind of sad that you now have to pay a manufacturer's "Performance Center" to do the kind of stuff you would have expected a regular ol' gun to ship with at one time...

Also, please stop making everything in camo. The Mossy Oak fetish is getting out of hand.
 
Just making the damn things work right the first time would make me a very happy man.
I'm so tired of doing quality control for them.
 
+1 on goon's comment. Too many NIB guns rapidly become NIBADW -- as in New In Box And Don't Work guns. I'd also appreciate an extra magazine in the box when I buy a new gun -- no more of this one-mag-and-buy-a-second approach. That move alone would make me (and I'll wager a lot of others) happy.
 
Ruger: put the reverse indexing pawl in ALL your single actions.

The used market is filled with Blackhawks. Why should I buy new ones? So I get the internal lock and the crappy plastic grips on the blue models?

With that pawl, though, I'd buy a brand new one and not think twice about paying more, and I would even tolerate having to buy grips as soon as I bought the gun.
 
Production Firearms websites with a "build your own" feature like on automakers websites.
Choose caliber, Bbl length, finish, trigger pull, grips, sights, etc.

In short, take a cue from AR manufacturers that offer custom features from the factory.

Imagine creating your own factory unique Smith 610!
 
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"Internal gun locks.

A total waste of time and money for 99% of gun owners."

Good idea. And, Glock could mold the correct grip angle into their frames--so they don't point high for so many of us.

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1911 manufacturers could use EGW firing pin stops with a bevel cut in them. That is more like the original firing pin stop Browning designed.
It was changed because the cavalry complained that it was too hard to rack the slide, but it reduces recoil and muzzle flip.
 
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