I might be the oddball. I bought a very old 38 special revolver that shot great. It encouraged me to ignore the constant Taurus bashing and I bought a semi-auto. It has been fine and I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Taurus. I ignored the bashing after buying the widely bashed Hi-Point and finding the bashing was baseless. I figured if they were so wrong about the Hi-Point that it was likely the same with Taurus.