I'm not usually a fan of threads that bash XXXX brand. Also, I long was a defender of Taurus. However, I just no longer feel comfortable buying anything from them (people who remember me from 10-15 years ago, especially when I had the only online Taurus fan board at the time, may be doing a double take).
My Taurus history:
My first handgun was a Taurus 82. It was overall a good gun, though sometimes the ejector rod would back out a little after shooting making opening the cylinder difficult. Nothing a little loctite wouldn't fix, but I never got around to it. The DA trigger was a little heavy as well. I ended up selling it when I got my S&W 65LS since at the time I believed I wouldn't own more than 2-4 handguns and I didn't see the use of having 2 medium framed revolvers.
My next Taurus was a 605. No issues, but I found .357mag in a small snub unpleasant so I sold it.
Then I got a Taurus PT140 Millennium Pro, the original DAO version. For a long time it was a good gun for me. When the rear sight came loose and eventually fell off (a common problem) I still wasn't soured and I did some research to find a night sight that would work and paid to have a gunsmith install it since it would take a little modification. That work, and the sight, put my cheap Taurus into $500+ territory, that is how much I liked and trusted this gun.
I'm not sure if the used Taurus 85CH came before or after the PT140. It has been a good gun for me. I'm not a big snub/small framed revolver fan (despite owning 4 small frame snubs) and I've often played with the idea of selling it. Every time, I find an excuse to keep it.
So, four good Taurus handguns and about 2K rounds through the PT140 had me online defending Taurus in all the Taurus bashing threads. I wasn't a fanboy, I acknowledged that they had problems somewhat more frequently than the more expensive brands, but I bought the idea that if you have trouble it will show up immediately and then just send it to Taurus to get fixed.
What changed my mind...
First, my PT140 developed another problem, one that made it unusable. The firing pin gets stuck in the fire position. Luckily it caused rounds to be unable to feed, because if they did then the firing pin would have engaged the primer and it would have fired when I didn't want it to. Eventually I'll get around to sending it in and experiencing Taurus customer service first hand, but I'll never trust it for its intended purpose (CCW/home defense), it is a bit small to be a great range gun, and I won't sell it due to it being a piece of crap. So, I'm in no hurry to spend the money to UPS it just for a gun that will do what it is doing now (sitting in my safe) most of the time.
Then, I saw the class action lawsuits about the polymer guns firing when they shouldn't. Coupled with my firing pin issue, my confidence in Taurus took a blow. Then, there was the settlement with Taurus actually acknowledging the issue. This can be seen two ways: 1) at least they acknowledged it and are doing something about it, or 2) that means there is definitely a design issue with all their polymer guns that they fought doing anything about for about a decade. I took the second way of seeing it. I keep hearing that the G2 guns are different, improved, without any of the issues of previous designs, but I always heard that about every previous generation of Taurus polymer, and each had major flaws, some unfixable enough that they dropped lines altogether for a "new and improved" (the original Millennium for my gen Millennium Pro for instance).
The final blow at around the same time was buying my 2" Rossi 461. Rossi is now made by Taurus, and has been for a while. My 2" 461 had an issue early on where it would totally bind after shooting off a round or two of .357mag. It would work fine with .38spl, but I couldn't get through more than one or two rounds of magnums. I haven't had the problem in a while, but I rarely shoot more than a cylinder or two of magnums anymore so I don't know if it likes the brands I use now, or if I'm just getting lucky. I don't trust it (especially since, from doing some online research, I see that this seems to be a relatively common problem now with Taurus and Rossi revolvers), I rarely shoot anything out of it, and I've never used it for its intended purpose as a carry gun. I also got a 3" which I rarely fire and I'm not sure if I'll ever develop any confidence in it due to the troubles with the 2".
So, I no longer recommend Taurus. When shopping guns, I often look due to their prices, but since that 3" Rossi (which I'm probably going to sell soon) I have not been able to convince myself to buy a Taurus product (both Taurus and Rossi).