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NAA Guardian .380..............whoa.
Your Guns That Didn't Work
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wally
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Pretty much nobody who is not shooting bullseye 2700 matches is happy with a .22LR pistol that only works if you use ammo that costs nearly as much as 9mm FMJ. I have one, its cute but not much more reliable than my Jennings .22 which was a whole lot cheaper!
My current dud is a Chiappa 1911-22. Two stovepipes in 60 rounds of rather expensive CCI Mini-Mags is a good day, its worse with the bulk pack ammo I expected to be able to use. Its back for repair, we'll see if I threw good money after bad paying the shipping to send it back
The difficulty of making .22LR work in a pocket gun is why JMB invented the .25ACP round.
bannockburn
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I had a Sterling .22 that usually could make it through one magazine before the jams started. Same with a FTL Auto Nine .22. My most reliable mini .22 was an Iver Johnson TP-22. Trigger pull was heavy and the finish on it was spotty at best, but the gun functioned just fine. Made the mistake of trading it in on a Beretta Model 21 when they first came out. In retrospect, I should have kept the Iver Johnson. Nowadays the most reliable (but not the smallest), .22 that I own is my Beretta Model 70S.
Taroman
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Purchased this new M&P .45 with great expectations that it would replace my 14-year old Glock 30. Nice pistol, felt great in my hands. Shot well, but never as well as the Glock or my 1911. 3 factory and 12 different handloads. Must be me. My bad. Traded it back for a S&W .357 magnum revolver and never looked back.
Steve 48
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I know a lot of people that would disagree that the 2022 is a POS. Mine is a gem!!!
PR-NJ
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Had a Smith & Wesson Model 469 back in the early 1980s. (At the time, S&W was mostly making revolvers, and few PDs were using semi-autos as duty firearms.) POS. Don't think I ever emptied a magazine without at least one jam.
david58
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How about a Kimber Pro Carry. Averaged a failure per magazine. Should never have left the factory - in fact, they finally took it back after the dealer took it back from me. They weren't going to until he finally called management up there, and they finally allowed as that the gun was in fact screwed up.
I replaced it with a Kimber Custom II, Stainless, with the credit from the dealer. I will buy more guns from the dealer, but never another Kimber.
I replaced it with a Kimber Custom II, Stainless, with the credit from the dealer. I will buy more guns from the dealer, but never another Kimber.
Ala Dan
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Beretta 92FS 9m/m "Centurion model" = highly inaccurate; and the same
can be said for my .40 S&W caliber SIGARMS P229. Both were purchased
NIB; and both are NO LONGER in my stable of fine firearms~!
can be said for my .40 S&W caliber SIGARMS P229. Both were purchased
NIB; and both are NO LONGER in my stable of fine firearms~!
Valkman
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Jennings .380, my first gun purchase for like $80 new and a total POS that wouldn't fire a mag full without a jam.
Colt NRM Government Model - Horrendous trigger pull, never could make it better and finally left it in parts a few years ago. Just "found it" again and am going to buy a bunch of parts from Brownell's to fix it.
Colt NRM Government Model - Horrendous trigger pull, never could make it better and finally left it in parts a few years ago. Just "found it" again and am going to buy a bunch of parts from Brownell's to fix it.
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Confederate
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Was the Jennings .380 anything like the Davis .380?
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Confederate
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The Beretta 21A works very well now with CCI MiniMags. No complaints with the lighter Yellowjackets either.
It just doesn't like cheap brands like Thunderbolts.
kulprit
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I have nothing to contribute to this thread - I just think it's funny that the video in your signature is of one of my law professors! I love that lecture and share it as much as I can.
RimfireChris
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Sorry no pictures, but I bought a Norinco 
9mm Tokarev copy at a pawn shop for $150 in the mid 90's. Biggest POS I've ever owned, horrible safety, plus it looked like it was finished by a 9-year-old with an energy drink and a file.
9mm Tokarev copy at a pawn shop for $150 in the mid 90's. Biggest POS I've ever owned, horrible safety, plus it looked like it was finished by a 9-year-old with an energy drink and a file.WRGADog
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CZ P2075 Rami, 9mm. Trigger was awful and gun was way too selective on ammunition it would feed. Had trigger job don and cured the gritty trigger, but could never solve the feeding issues with the gun. Traded the gun for a XDM 9, 3.8, which i like and shoot very well.
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