This thread is hilarious... I've owned and shot LOTS of ammo through almost every one of the guns that are listed as jam-o-matics, and never had a problem with them. I've sent a couple of guns back to the manufacturers when I did have problems, but evidently you guys are either expecting miracles from every gun you buy, or I've just been so lucky that I got all the guns that worked.
Beretta Tomcats work fine with CCI stingers, but are a little testy with some Remington loads... but as for being a POS... nah...
SR-9... only problem I had was being without it for two weeks while they fixed the trigger. Runs like a Swiss watch.
Tanfoglio Witness and TZ-75... never a hiccup. A small problem with one slamfire in the TZ, but it was an anomolie, and never re-occurred.
Baby Eagle .40 cal... never a burp. One of the most accurate guns I own.
Llama Minimax and Micromax... a few hiccups in the .380, but nothing that wasn't fixed with a little cleaning and polishing the feed ramp. The .45 ran like a clock.
Smith and Wesson 4006, Model 39, Model 19, Sigma... never a problem with any of them.
I carry a Para P-12 (which has saved my life), and own six other 1911 platform guns that all go bang every time I pull the trigger... no problems at all... both regular and high-cap.
Springfield XD-M, 1911, never a problem...
The only gun I ever really had problems with was a FEG Hi-Power clone that constantly stovepiped. I have an FEG .380 that the extractor pin flew out of when I was cleaning it, but it ran like a watch during shooting... I'm still looking for the pin...
Since I work in a gun store now, I'm really loving hearing that the Kimbers and Glocks are junk too... I have to set aside time every day to listen to the customers come in and moon over the Kimbers and Glocks like they were women, and then show up three days later (after buying them) to trade them off.
What I've found, for the most part, is that when people have problems with guns, it's a combination of not breaking the guns in properly, not running them oiled or lubricated enough, using bad ammo, or the wrong ammo (nightmare stories there), or simply not educated enough in shooting to know what the hell they were doing with the guns. People trade in guns for all kinds of reasons, and luckily, I can keep playing with most of them until I see if they really have a problem or if it's imagined... but thanks to all you who have bought all those terrible guns and turned them back in so I could get them cheaper... a little TLC goes a long way toward making anything mechanical work, and a gun is just a little machine for making bullets go bang...
WT