A lot of guns have plastic safeties or no safeties at all, safety is between the ears not some mekanical devise....so what are you getting at?
On the safety issue - this is a really big deal with the J-22's. Remember, these guns are true single action only - not Glock actions. For them to work you need to carry them with a round chambered. The striker will be held back by a sear. If the safety is not on and you drop or even bump the gun hard enough,
it will fire. On the J-22, there just isn't that much holding that striker in place and the sear spring isn't as stiff as it should be. The problem with the plastic safeties is that they don't work. Many folks have reported being able to easily fire the pistol with the safety on. They would also break or simply stop working with no notice.
Now, my J-22 has a steel sliding safety. It works, but I was never comfortable carrying the gun with one in the chamber relying on that sliding safety which could easily snag and go to the off position without me knowing.
You can talk all you want about "safety between the ears....", and while that might be good and well for DAO pistols, DA/SA pistols and even Glock-action type pistols it simply doesn't apply to the J-22. My Colt Mustang is SAO and made much better than the J-22, but I would never even consider carrying that in my pocket with one in the chamber and no safety on. That's just a recipe for a
very bad day!
Lastly you have a Lorcin that goes back Before the Days of Jimenez and it is still working thanks too Jimenez who are not obligated too service it!
Hallo....that kinda tells you the Company must be pretty good to customer who are not even their customers.
The gun was never serviced by Jimenez. It was serviced by Lorcin, years and years ago (It was given to me sometime in the 1990's and as the PO had it serviced, I don't know exactly when this was done). The reason it still works is because since it was serviced, it has only fired less than 10 rounds. It had to be sent back to the factory multiple times for the same problem - broken extractors and weak or broken extractor spring. I don't know anything about Jimenez's (or Lorcin's) customer service and never offered any opinion on that. It might be fantastic, I don't know.
I don't know why you are so defensive about these pistols. I have not "bashed" the J-22, and in fact if you read my posts and many other posts I've made over the years about the J-22, I explain that the one with the steel safeties are not as bad as people make them out to be. Now, the Lorcin .380 - I don't know what to tell you guy - it's had its share of problems; this is not a well made or even decently made gun! The parts are cheap and prone to breakage. Maybe I'll fire a bunch of rounds through it the next time I'm at the range and see how it performs - it's been years since I've shot it.