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RedRaiderDavid wrote:I'm no gun smith but I think some guns get a bad wrap because of the failure of their owners to properly maintain them. For instance, my first gun was a Smith and Wesson Sigma 9mm which I think S&W has since removed the Sigma name because they had bad press due to jamming. I shot thousands of rounds through that gun and it never once even hiccuped BUT I also clean my weapons after they are fired, every time. Many less experienced gun owners rarely clean their guns, don't know they should at all or do it every few range trips and then complain when their weapons malfunction. We know that the most reliable gun out there is probably Glock (don't hate, I'm not a fan), you can shoot a thousand rounds through it, drop it in the mud on the way to your car then leave it in there for the month of August and it will still fire. 1911s on the other hand require more routine maintenance, cleaning and lubrication to get that kind of reliability but they are capable of it. So yeah, the gun who buys a 1911, doesn't clean it all year then goes to that training is probably going to have a failure where the guy who bought a Glock, treated it the same way and went to the training is probably going to get away with it.