I've had 4 kahrs, a pm9, a pm40, a cw40, and a K9.
Of those I still have the K9, and sent the others down the road.
The pm9 was never reliable enough to carry. It had a FTF about every other magazine or so during Kahrs "break in" period, then settled to a FTF every five or six magazines, no matter how tightly it was held or how many rounds were fired as a break in.
The PM40 was the same, reliability-wise. After using the PM40 on a game animal with poor results I became a bit jaded about its abilities as a self defense weapon.
The CW40 was a combination of things that sucked. The chamber was extremely short so cast lead rounds had to be seated deeper than I thought was safe in a cartridge so sensitive to setback. The magazine release started malfunctioning within 100 rounds, causing the magazine to drop free under recoil.
The design of those polymer Kahrs sucks. You'll know what I mean the first time you remove the slide stop or if you ever have to replace the magazine release.
I was hesitant to get a Kahr for a long time, but once I did, I found I really like the trigger. I have a K9 and it's very well made.
The older steel frame Kahrs are great guns. After swearing off Kahrs by my experience with their polymer handguns, I found a K9 with a very low price and decided to see if the steel guns are as bad as the polymer versions and thankfully they are not, quiet the opposite in fact.
