HorribleHaggar
Member
Recently, I read with interest the rather heated thread about the Guardian .380, too bad the moderator had to shut it down before I could talk about my $400 paper weight.
I have experienced all of the same problems that the thread originater had, i.e. stove piping. Mine will always stove pipe the last spent casing which NAA says is perfectly normal. Mine also likes to throw in a stove pipe every once in awhile just to keep you on your toes and it doesn't have to be the last casing anyone does just fine. I cannot accept the manf's statement that this is normal procedure. In my limited experience, I have never heard of a manufacturer of any product, regardless what it is, saying a design defect is perfectly all right and that owners should just learn to live with it. This is especially bad considering the fact that, as we all know, a side arm is used primarily to defend it's owner from harm. Sure a real gun nut would have gone to all the forums and did a search on the Guardian to determine if it was a good choice. Not silly me, I believed their advertising and my local gun dealer. If NAA had put a caveat in red letters in their owner's manual and in their advertising stating that "Guardian .380's stove pipe the last spent casing and that's a normal function of the gun", I for one would not have laid out $400+ for it.
One other thing about my Guardian that bothers me is the rifeling in the barrel. The rifeling is so slight that it is hardly visable, even when using a good bore light, at first glance you would think it was a smooth-bore but after you study it for a while you can see some very slight grooves in there.
I hope that this letter goes into THR's data bank and that a prospective buyer will see this and think twice before buying an NAA Guardian .380, especially considering that for $50 more he could buy a Glock. Oh well, live and learn. I keep my Guardian (with an empty mag and chamber) on top of the pile of paper on my desk, I can't trust it to work as a defense tool, but it does hold the paper down nicely. :banghead: :banghead:
I have experienced all of the same problems that the thread originater had, i.e. stove piping. Mine will always stove pipe the last spent casing which NAA says is perfectly normal. Mine also likes to throw in a stove pipe every once in awhile just to keep you on your toes and it doesn't have to be the last casing anyone does just fine. I cannot accept the manf's statement that this is normal procedure. In my limited experience, I have never heard of a manufacturer of any product, regardless what it is, saying a design defect is perfectly all right and that owners should just learn to live with it. This is especially bad considering the fact that, as we all know, a side arm is used primarily to defend it's owner from harm. Sure a real gun nut would have gone to all the forums and did a search on the Guardian to determine if it was a good choice. Not silly me, I believed their advertising and my local gun dealer. If NAA had put a caveat in red letters in their owner's manual and in their advertising stating that "Guardian .380's stove pipe the last spent casing and that's a normal function of the gun", I for one would not have laid out $400+ for it.
One other thing about my Guardian that bothers me is the rifeling in the barrel. The rifeling is so slight that it is hardly visable, even when using a good bore light, at first glance you would think it was a smooth-bore but after you study it for a while you can see some very slight grooves in there.
I hope that this letter goes into THR's data bank and that a prospective buyer will see this and think twice before buying an NAA Guardian .380, especially considering that for $50 more he could buy a Glock. Oh well, live and learn. I keep my Guardian (with an empty mag and chamber) on top of the pile of paper on my desk, I can't trust it to work as a defense tool, but it does hold the paper down nicely. :banghead: :banghead: