Easing into the first 25 hours is one thing. No need to do 100 on the way home from the dealership, but if your wipers didn’t work, or the car would occasionally stall, you’d bring back a new car. And cars are significantly more intricate than a gun.
What I read there was that your buddy was a lousy shot with a .380 PPK. I suspect most people are. Those small, blowback 380s are nasty things to handle. The big advantage of the BG 2.0 and several other recent 380 offerings is that they used locked breech operation.
Halfmoonclip, this is not specifically for you but.....I must be very fortunate. I own more firearms "than Carter has pills" and I have only had one (1) that needed tweaking (and it turned out to be ammo specific). My firearms span from 1872 to present. My perspective (having professional carried for three decades, and performed maintenance on thousands of fighting firearms as an armorer) must be different. I load mags to capacity, shoot the "snot" out of most of them, carry some for personal defense, shoot others for fun and train law enforcement with others, as well. I shoot factory and reloaded ammo, new and old mags, obsolete and modern calibers, etc. Does an occasional problem occur...yes, but its usually my fault or something easily corrected. I was as aggravated as some, I would consider a new hobby. And as far as new cars are concerned, they should work as manufactured but put Kool-Aid in the tank instead of proper gasoline and see the result. And "break-in" periods are required for some firearm-types, even if we don't like it. (and "break-in" may be for the owner...familiarization, ammo selection, purpose of purchase, etc) Many gun owners know very little about maintenance or performance, so it becomes easy to complain about the manufacturer. Any mechanical object, be it a car, firearm, coffee maker or fork, will not long perform if used outside of its designed, engineered, or manufactured operational window. Clipping off spring coils, shaving followers, rubbing gravy on the finish or repeating incantations rarely "solve" operational problems. Best of luck and I hope you're able to enjoy the tools of your hobby (or profession).
Good thought about the civilian defense action/tactical reload. Most folks don't know what a tactical load is. As a police officer of 3-decades and a deadly force instructor, I can only recall a rare instance of a non-professional "topping off" after a defense event. Most people move to a safe area, call 911 and wait for help. A "tactical reload" is mostly unnecessary. As I teach nationally, I have found several police departments that have quit teaching the "tactical reload" and opted for a simple full-mag change, dropping the partially used mag instead of retaining it. Considering the template of self-defense evenrs, this option is not without merit.
Why discard a magazine with live ammo? I get dropping the mag in the unlikely event of reloading at all, but why drop a magazine with live ammo? Retaining it takes almost no effort.
