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ORIGINAL: SJAdventures

Wish my stepson was here to tell you exactlyabout his. What I know about his is that it is a 40 cal polymar and he is waiting fora new gun to be shipped back to him now and he is going to sell it unfired when he gets it back. His Kahr 40 cal started having part of the slide guides (not sure if that is correct terminolgy) chipping off and the dealer he bought it from said they were glad he brought it back when he did that it was in a very dangerous state and at any time could have had the slide blow off of it when shot. They sent it back to Kahr and he is waiting to hear back from them now.

These types of things can happen to any pistol.Sometime back I was issued a NIB.40 S&W(not going to mention the name here)to replace my old duty weapon which was approximately10 years old and was made by the same company. After unboxing the pistol, inspectingit and recording serial #'s,I was off to the range for a 50 round qualification course. Qualification went well and all was fine untila couple days later when I noticed a crack in the slide near the rear sight. The slide was cracked enough to allow me to slide the rear sight in and out of the dovetail by hand. The company replaced the pistol without reservation and stood behind their product. I have searched the web for any other issuessimilar to mine buthave yet to find any.

I have read and heard of some problems withKahr pistols, especially the early models. As I statedin a previous postmany problemscan be contributed to operator error but some were probably not the fault of the shooter. Regardless, I have heard enough thatit would takesome timefor me to have faith in a Kahras a self defense pistol.

I have zero problems and have completetrust in Beretta, Sig,and Glock. In fact, I carry or have carried thesethree brandsas a duty weapon or backup weapon for the last 12 years. I know there are other brands which have a reputations just as reliable that I did not mention, but I have significant time with thesethreeto have completetrustin them. I am personally a big fan of Glock as a CCWbut I am not here to hijack this thread. I will say this though, the beauty of Glock lies in its simplicity.