by rhubarb
Ok, I counted them:
Bersa 2
HK 3
Hi Point 4
Raven 4
CZ 5
Tanfoglio 5
Kahr 6
Glock 7
Sig 10
Llama 11
Para 11
Jennings 12
Taurus 12
Springfield 13
AMT 14
Colt 14
S&W 15
Beretta 17
Keltec 17
Ruger 17
Walther 22
Kimber 25
(clipped for brevity)
Just saying. Draw your own conclusions.
Thanks for doing the count. I agree that there is absolutely no statistical significance to any of this. I think it is safe to say that all firearms have the potential for malfunction, even the best names in the business, out of the box.
The info that we would need that I doubt any firearms mfgr has nor would be willing to share if they did, is total number manufactured of any given model, types of problems, those satisfactorily fixed, number of rounds fired, etc. It would be interesting to see what this kind of data looked like though. Any gun board I've been to has bashers of any given make or model, some more than others. Hard to know really if any of that is based on good evidence, personal experience (which is always 100%) or simple prejudice and hearsay.
Interesting thread and no,I didn't read all of it. Stumbled on your post from a search I did. I own a Taurus PT99, Glock 26, SIG P220, S&W 2206, Soviet PM, P-64, P-83 and all of them are reliable. Luck might have something to do with it, IDK. For long arms, my Colt Sporter, Norinco SKS, Benelli SBE, SA M1 Garand and Marlin Model 60 are all reliable too. I can think of a couple of these that did have a little break-in period or didn't like some particular ammunition (forget Thunderbolt in an M60!) but don't really count that as an unreliable semi-auto.