Name your biggest POS handguns.

[Javelin Man]

Lorcin!

My .25 Lorcin is quite accurate for a tiny gun, but jams are to be expected in each magazine. My wife fired it once and she must've had her thumb up so the slide would hit it. The gun disassembled itself and she was left holding the grip pointing it at the target. I shipped it to Lorcin and they fixed it free of charge and told me not to shoot hollow points in it, not that I ever did.

I have noticed in the five pages of this thread that nobody's mentioned their Hi-Points. Mine have been very reliable as most people's have been. As with Smith & Wesson, Kahr, Glock, Ruger and other fine manufacturers, they seem to have turned out a few lemons, but are not mentioned at all. Sorry to infer that Hi-Point was in the same ballpark as the other manufacturers, but just pointing out the lack of POS naming by them.

 

[Boss Spearman]

Witness polymer 9mm compact. None of the magazines would work, and EAA themselves did not have any magazines in stock. I'll never own one again.

 

[RTFM]

Bersa Thunder .380
Jam o matic.

 

[Skipper]

OH,THE TERRIBLE MEMORIES YOU'VE STIRRED !!!!

In over 40 years I've only owned a few with problems,but I bought one new
back in the 80's that was a pure waste of money. It was an AMT SKIPPER
(stainless,comander size, 1911). The concept was good,even ahead of it's
time,but this thing never worked and when it did it invariably broke something ! This was a REALLY bad gun!!!

 

[Big Mike]

As I said a year ago...Grendel P380, had a "slam fire" with it...recently saw a friend who had one he bought years ago and hadn't fired. I told him to crush it or turn it into the police for some $, but don't shoot it.

My Honorable Mention...Star Firestar Plus, the hammer would fall when the trigger was pulled with the safety on. JUNK.

 

[45R]

The only POS gun that I have is a Ruger MKII that another THR member sold me. I bought it as my beater. It goes bang everytime but isnt all that accurate and has a horrible trigger to boot!

 

[Souris]

I had a springfield armory 1911 that was the biggest POS. I couldn't hit with it and it was a jam-o-matic! Sold it at a loss. Wish I hadn't
I could have probably built something nice out of the receiver.

 

[10-Ring]

I have had 2 guns that I were POS:

1st was one of the original Taurus 380's... and the other was a SIG P220 that was just a lemon

 

[Mikey Glockster]

well, kinda?

I have a Glock 23 that was very loose. Loose is usually ok, because it means it will eat all types of ammo, but it isn't ok when it compromises accuracy. I sent it to Glock ($20 shipping it next day air) and they fixed the problem and it STILL eats any ammo I feed it, as fast as I can fire it in any position. Man, is this thing surgical now, too!

Mike

 

[seed]

I have a Glock 23 that was very loose. Loose is usually ok, because it means it will eat all types of ammo, but it isn't ok when it compromises accuracy. I sent it to Glock ($20 shipping it next day air) and they fixed the problem and it STILL eats any ammo I feed it, as fast as I can fire it in any position. Man, is this thing surgical now, too!

What did they do to fix it, exactly?

 

[NineseveN]

They sent him an HK.

 

[Mikey Glockster]

NineseveN, not quite, too many safeties for a lefty. Although I wouldn't mind having a Variant 7 or something like that.

I know they replaced slide lock spring, slide lock, ext. slide stop lever, and front night site. I don't know how that greatly increased the accuracy of my groups, but it did. They sent a proof target with it, and I posted a thread about it a month or two back.

I am very, very happy with it now. I love that Glock stands behind their product! Every company can let a lemon slide through, only the good ones will fix the problem with very fast turn around (9 days or so).


Mike

 

[NineseveN]

Roger that Mikey.

 

[Joe Mamma]

I've had problems with lots of guns. But, the worst one was definitely the CZ-75.

Joe Mamma

 

[seed]

I've had problems with lots of guns. But, the worst one was definitely the CZ-75.

Joe Mamma

Please tell the story. I for one am actually quite surprised to hear this. Could it have been the proverbial 1 in 1000 lemon?

 

[Joe Mamma]

"Please tell the story. I for one am actually quite surprised to hear this. Could it have been the proverbial 1 in 1000 lemon?"

No, there were some design/manufacturing flaws: the firing pin retaining pin would break/get dammaged if you dry fired it a lot; the finish on the glossy blue one that I have was very thin near the grips and wore through and showed some corrosion after minmal handling (even though I kept it well lubed on the outside); the dots in the rear sight (used to quickly acquire a site picture) were crooked, the trigger break sucked, the slide stop would often lock the slide back even with rounds left in the magazine.

That's all I can remember for now.

Joe Mamma

 

[squid8286]

One of the first handguns I ever bought was an AMT Backup in .380. It would not even feed ONE mag of fmj without jamming. Turned me off to the .380 for good. Never have owned another one (probably never will.)

 

[Mark8252]

Bad Guns

I have been lucky...or maybe its my research before I buy...but I have not had any junk handguns.
Not so lucky with a few rifles......but nothing I was not able to correct.
Probably is luck cause i have a lot of firearms.

 

[KC&97TA]

Had a Berreta 92F that had been 'worked' by a young USMC armor, acurized, had some funny thing attached to the slide to keep the barrel a little tighter in the slide, the feed ramp had been polished a bit to much, the slide lock wouldn't lock, target sites that always moved on you, sloppy trigger work. I wish I'd kept it, it just needed a real gun smith and maybe a new barrel. Shot some tight groups between jams.

I've got a Ruger P944 .40 S&W, needs a ton of oil, and shoots a 5" group off a vice at 7 yrds... it's been sitting in the safe for several months now, think I have 10 rounds for it still? Makes a good door stop.

My Kimber Custom TLE/II, had me really irritated for a while, finially bought some Wilson Combat Mags and tossed out the Kimber Mags, needs to be cleaned every 200 rounds, will litteraly jam on round #201, but no problems since buying new mags, go figure a $800 gun that comes with $2 mags.

BEST Hand gun I have, please don't laugh... Berreta 92 FS with Crimson Trace Lazer Grips and military Mags. have over 12k rounds through it, extractor is getting a bit worn, could use a spring rebuild. maybe it's because it's almost identical to USGI issue and I've put down well over 60k 9mm rounds in the past 5 years.

2nd Best Glock 20, what a tack driver.

 

[ArgentineSteel]

AMT Mark 1 clone

Worst POS handgun I ever had was an AMT Mark I clone. Inaccurate and couldn't be made accurate with adjustable sights. :banghead: Impossible to get back together easily after breaking it down, and Jammed all the time. FTEs.

Traded it in on a Buckmark, and I'm much happier.

 

[Echo Tango]

POS but not the worst

I would have to say it was a Squires&Bingham (now known as Armscor) model 1600. Ya know that little 22 cal m-16ish look alike. Funny thing is I still own it, was a 13th bday present and here i am at 34 still toting it around. Has a funny habit of when being fired one of the screws that holds the sear/trigger group to the receiver/barrel assembly tends to back out, dropping the sear so it no longer catches the hammer, its a bit disconcerting when your rifle suddenly goes automatic on you.

Um ok im stupid....this isnt a handgun sorry bout that

 

[Pointblank]

Para Ordinance Para Companion. Total Garbage. Went back to the factory once, has NEVER worked.

 

[Tropical Z]

Tanfoglio GT-27 .25acp

 

[Bobkat45lc]

Bad Buys

Been gun crazy since the early 1970's and have been quite lucky 95% of the time. But in the 1980's I had a new Colt Trooper, 4in blue, in 22lr and a used S&W model 19in .357 mag. Both would bind up after a few rounds. Few years ago got a new AMT AutoMag in .22mag and it would never feed well. Got rid of both.

 

[355sigfan]

A Colt parts gun 1911. Not Colts fault a pistol put together with parts from various guns and not fit well by the local smith.

Taurus 605

NAA guardian in 32

Beretta Tomcat in 32

Taurus 44 mag
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