ruger makes awesome revolvers and decent rifles but there autos are ugly, inaccurate ,and poorly balanced but they are tough, rugged and reliable kinda like the mini-14. but thats ofcourse just my opinion. My choice of hangun is either a Kimber or springfield 1911 or springfield XD if they would ever make it in a 45 acp rather then the whimpy 40 smith and 9mm so untill then I will stick with the glock model 21C and glock model 30. I also like the taurus PT 145 kind of a glock model 30 nock off but every bit as good and half the price.