WestKentucky
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The original post was inviting this thread to become a taurus bashing session. I guess that makes, but holy smokes guys....Ruger put out the American rifle with junk mags, and 10-22 mags are known to be junk but people don't whine and cry about Ruger selling junk. Someone already mentioned S&W cracked airweight frames. Smith also put out the entire sigma series which were junk until the VE guns hit the market. Glocks blow up in people's hands, 1911s are hard to keep running but no bad press there. Taurus gets mentioned and suddenly it's bash-time. Charter is a close second. Everybody has a bad gun on the market, and we shouldn't fault one manufacturer more than another simply because their guns sell at half the price so they produce more.
To go a step further, you never once hear of someone doing any inspection of the weapon before accepting it. In this thread (not faulting op because he mat have done a very detailed inspection but failed to mention it) if it were a loose screw it would have been found and tightened. A lot of the timing issues are easily seen with a pen-light, gritty clunky triggers and actions are impossible to miss during an inspection. I tell everyone to inspect a new gun as if it were used, often times more closely. Used guns have been shot and problems fixed usually, new guns havent. So do people simply look at the end of the box and say yep that's model abc123 I'll take it? If that's the case shame on the buyer.
To go a step further, you never once hear of someone doing any inspection of the weapon before accepting it. In this thread (not faulting op because he mat have done a very detailed inspection but failed to mention it) if it were a loose screw it would have been found and tightened. A lot of the timing issues are easily seen with a pen-light, gritty clunky triggers and actions are impossible to miss during an inspection. I tell everyone to inspect a new gun as if it were used, often times more closely. Used guns have been shot and problems fixed usually, new guns havent. So do people simply look at the end of the box and say yep that's model abc123 I'll take it? If that's the case shame on the buyer.