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Originally Posted by Rastoff
The .380Auto is a low power, finicky round. For any gun to work well with this round, the gun needs to be tuned properly. A mass produced gun just won't have the fine finishing necessary to be really reliable with this round.
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Mass produced pistols have been reliably digesting .380 cartridges and spitting bullets out for over a century. Until recently, they were all blowback designs. Whether it's easier to tune than a short recoil action, I don't know - I wouldn't think so. I've put a small mountain of .380 through a Glock 42 with absolutely zero issues, and that's recoil operated. I don't think it's that hard to get a mass-produced .380 pistol to operate reliably. S&W, very surprisingly, doesn't seem to have managed that with the otherwise excellent .380 EZ.