Even if the fool wants to only make it a wall hanger?I decline to answer on the grounds it might tend to humiliate me. I sure won't sell it to some other uninformed fool. Besides I have only had it for over 35 years and someday a "buy back" may offer a way out.
I have the P12 version. Mine ran well enough out of the box.A Grendel P10, purchased on a LE purchase order in 1989 or so. The company was marketing the product to LEOs as a potential OD/BU weapon to replace the .38 five-shooting revolver. Officers had skepticism over small semi-autos having levers and buttons that could be inadvertently actuated during duty, especially when the gun was worn on an ankle. The P10 offered the same simplicity of a DA-revolver, with more than twice the firepower, in a package that was thinner and lighter than the snub .38 wheeler. Since most of those said wheelers were carried without a reload, the idea that the P10 had no means for a rapid reload was of little concern.
But, the gun was marketed before it was perfected, and was typically unreliable. Almost all of us who got in on the deal (about 15 of us) reported issues with jams and misfeeds, though we figured out that most of that could be resolved with a good feed-ramp polish. Still, the guns are so tightly built that they foul quickly. Mine will now run two magazine-fulls flawlessly, then start failing to fully extract or eject. That wouldn't matter much in a fight, though, since one magazine is all you get (unless someone calls a time-out!)
Wow- that was an interesting tale of a spectacularly bad gun! I think you made a wise choice to spare not only yourself, but also others, from harm with the way that you disposed of it...I was asked to talk to the widow of a retired officer. She had a gun of her husband's she needed out of the house. It was a generic 40's Spanish .32 semi-auto pistol, looked like a POS, but I gave her more than it was worth.
When I released the slide to strip a cartridge out of the magazine to load it, it slam fired. Hmm, now I have a hole in my bedroom wall. Luckily, it didn't exit the house. Later, I accidentally dropped it, it went off with the safety on. Hmm, now I have a hole in my bedroom ceiling. Again, luckily, it didn't go through the roof, or more luckily, through me.
I wasn't going to wait for strike 3 for it to kill me. Never loaded it again, pieces were thrown off various bridges. So no, I no longer have it, but thought it deserved mention, certainly not honorable.
I have an FIE Titan .25. It's horribly inaccurate. I'm lucky to keep my shots on paper at 25'. It keyholes, and the safety lever is likely to fall out at inopportune times. But it's reliable. It always goes bang with any kind of ammo.
It's just not worth the trouble it would take to sell it and none of the local gun shops will take it in trade.
One of these days maybe I'll hear about a gun by-back before it happens and trade it for whatever they're offering.