WORST Gun From A Reputable Firearms Manufacturer That You've Personally Owned...

[RUTGERS95]

Pretty sure that means Palmetto State ****ery?

LOL!

that would be my vote and submission as well

[TheGhostRider]

Colt... All American 2000.
What a friggin dumpster fire that was.
I was young, dumb and full of... well, in my defense computers/internet were not main stream and its a Colt... must be good right! Big mistake! Hope the guy that bought if from me doesn't remember me!

[RUTGERS95]

we should flip this to, 'best cheap no name gun you ever bought'

mine would be the bersa thunder9. Utterly reliable, not a single malfunction in over 7k rounds, cleaned that sucker exactly 2x and literally treated it like a used butter knife. I even once used it to hammer a nail lol

[Hank6046]

we should flip this to, 'best cheap no name gun you ever bought'

mine would be the bersa thunder9. Utterly reliable, not a single malfunction in over 7k rounds, cleaned that sucker exactly 2x and literally treated it like a used butter knife. I even once used it to hammer a nail lol

Bersa Thunder 380 is one of my closet favorite guns. It was always performed so much better than I expected with very low recoil, their carry 9mm was actually a really nice gun too but I ended up going with the Shield because of aftermarket support.

[Hank6046]

My worse gun was likely the Sig Scorpion I picked up back in 2012.



I really wanted to like it, and boy did I try. It had a lot going for it. I liked the grips, loved the rail and factory night sights, and it was FDE to boot. Wasn't a fan of the flat trigger, nor the square-cut slide, but I could accept that if it had worked. It really didn't.

My good friend bought one right around the time that the COLT USMC 1911's came out and I really wanted it because I knew I would never afford the Colt at the time. I remember him just furious that it would jam on so many different types of ammo. I'm pretty sure the money went to buy the knights rail for my A4 clone build

[seb5]

Back before the mag capacity ban I bought a pair of the worst pistols I ever had. I bought 6 hi cap mags each and 2 cases of .40. Neither could choke thru a mag with any type of round, hollow pointor ball, light or heavy. I thought these would be the shizzznit but instead they were the 2 worst firearms I ever bought.

S&W Sigmas..............

[Ron3]

At some point you need to ask if it's you or the gun lol. That's a whole lot of guns to have issues with.

I have never once had a single issue with a BCM, Colt, or even SW M&P Sport AR. And I've had a couple 1911s that were turds but most of them have been just great.

Had two fixed FSB BCM's that were good.

Had a S&W 5.45 mm AR that was probably good but mags were low quality with nothing better available.

[Ron3]

Bersa Thunder 380 is one of my closet favorite guns. It was always performed so much better than I expected with very low recoil, their carry 9mm was actually a really nice gun too but I ended up going with the Shield because of aftermarket support.

I've had a Bersa .380 single stack and the Bersa .380 15+1 version. Both worked fine, although both would sometimes fail to ignite the Russian steel case primers. But striker fired guns sometimes fail to light them off as well.

[SteyrAUG]

we should flip this to, 'best cheap no name gun you ever bought'

mine would be the bersa thunder9. Utterly reliable, not a single malfunction in over 7k rounds, cleaned that sucker exactly 2x and literally treated it like a used butter knife. I even once used it to hammer a nail lol

We can probably do both, best BUDGET firearm you ever owned.

For me that would probably be a Systema 1927 (probably not fair since many were Colt contracts) but it was a surprisingly reliable 1911. They are well known performers but I'll go ahead and say the Savage Model 10 I inherited from my father deserves it's reputation.

Also found the Makarov to be impressively accurate but maybe it's not fair to consider Soviet surplus a "budget gun."

Also grabbed a Springfield SAR 4800 which was actually an Brazilian Imbel FAL and not only was it much cheaper than the FN models imported at the time (FN LAR) they had forged receivers while the FN imports were cast receivers. I think the SAR rifle was actually a third of the cost of the FN which were something insane like $1,200 back in 1987 while the Springfield / Imbel was around $450.

[soulezoo]

Colt series 80 combat commander in 9mm.
Safest place was in front of the muzzle. It was that inaccurate. And unreliable.
It was electroless nickle though and sure was purdy!