I've using firearms since the summer of 1957, when Uncle Sam put an M1 Garand in my hands and told me to have fun. Since then I've owned Colt, SIG, Ruger, S&W, Beretta, Remington, Rock Island Armory, Walther, Steyr, Glock, H&K, Kahr, CZ82, STAR, DDR Makarov, Russian IJ 70 Makarov, Polish P64, NAA and........Taurus.
Most of the above I've kept and a few I sold off due to poor performance of the handgun. I found even the Soviet Block (Warsaw Pact) handguns to be quite good.
I went thru much information before purchasing a THIRD generation Taurus PT745, 6+1 .45acp. Two "6 week vacations at the Miami Taurus repair depot" failed to fix the magazine issues and the unacceptable accuracy of that handgun.
A few years later, I tried a NIB PT709-9, which gave me unreliable trigger pull sets, which of course affects accuracy. I sold it.
Taurus firearms have a life time warranty, which attracts many gun buyers into purchasing one, but how many times must a handgun be repaired under warranty before one can trust it for self defense?
BUT, as the old German WWII vet told me many years ago - if you want a reliable handgun for self protection, look toward a country which has entered a major war and was forced to develop the fine art of precision gun making.
AFA I know, Brazil...........?
Just my opinion!
