i am an owner of a guardian .380. i am aware that this gun does not have an ejector, and that it relys on the next round in the mag to push out the spent casing. and because of its design, it will often stovepipe on the last round. that is NOT my problem. my problem is that it will often fail to extract spent casings from the chamber. it happened most often after the first shot, leaving 5 rounds in the clip. the nature of the malfunction was that the casing would eject half-way out of the chamber and get wedged against the next round in the mag. i would have to drop the mag, then rack the slide, and then reinsert mag, then rack, and it would happen again. this malfunction occured most often on the first shot, but it was not exclusive to it. it would happen on the second shot, third, etc... i bought this gun NIB, and shot about 50 rounds, with the problem occuring every time on the first round. also would happen on subsequent rounds, but most often on the first round. i was using remington UMC jrn(jacketed round nose, standard ball) from wal-mart. chamber was clean, gun was lubed, extractor was fine, extractor spring was fine, recail spring is fine. everything was the way it was supposed to be. i am thinking that the shell casings might have been too long in this particular brand of ammo? or the ammo was too hot, thereby expanding the casing in the chamber. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.