I bought a K9 a few years back. One of the magazine followers broke after a couple of magazines full of ammo. It would not go through a single magazine without prematurely locking back on any of the magazines it came with. After chewing through more than 300 rounds for break in it continued to be completely unreliable. After making some adjustments to the slide stop, the gun would shoot through a magazine without jamming but would no longer lock back. So I called Kahr. Sorry, no help there. Since I touched it I would get no help for warranty service. So I bought a new slide stop. But the gun continued to have problems. I polished the chamber and walla it started to function. So I bought some lakeline followers and called it good.
My buddy liked my K9. I warned him they have problems. But he took his chances and bought one. It too had problems. So he sent it back and they said they couldn't fix it and replaced it.
So now we had 2 K9s, both had problems.
Wanting to buy a compact 45, my buddy decided to try a P45. The K9s had to be a fluke right??? Out of the box it would automatically chamber a round by simply inserting a magazine, The gun would not feed rounds reliably from the magazine and would sometimes fail to load a round or would simply lock up so you couldn't depress the slide stop or rack the gun to chamber a round. So back to Kahr it went. They promised it was "fixed". Claimed to have done this, that and the other thing. Promised they had gone through several magazine worth of ammo without a hiccup. Well, we tried the gun today. It was not fixed. It had the same problems he reported to Kahr when it left the first time and it's just as unreliable today after a trip back to the factory as it was the day it left the factory. While we both want to like the P45, it was a complete disappointment. It's really sad that Kahr quality control is so bad and customer service is no better. The basic designs are solid. But they can't seem to put out a gun that works out of the box. Is that really so hard? CZ, Glock, Sig and others do it all the time.
My buddy liked my K9. I warned him they have problems. But he took his chances and bought one. It too had problems. So he sent it back and they said they couldn't fix it and replaced it.
So now we had 2 K9s, both had problems.
Wanting to buy a compact 45, my buddy decided to try a P45. The K9s had to be a fluke right??? Out of the box it would automatically chamber a round by simply inserting a magazine, The gun would not feed rounds reliably from the magazine and would sometimes fail to load a round or would simply lock up so you couldn't depress the slide stop or rack the gun to chamber a round. So back to Kahr it went. They promised it was "fixed". Claimed to have done this, that and the other thing. Promised they had gone through several magazine worth of ammo without a hiccup. Well, we tried the gun today. It was not fixed. It had the same problems he reported to Kahr when it left the first time and it's just as unreliable today after a trip back to the factory as it was the day it left the factory. While we both want to like the P45, it was a complete disappointment. It's really sad that Kahr quality control is so bad and customer service is no better. The basic designs are solid. But they can't seem to put out a gun that works out of the box. Is that really so hard? CZ, Glock, Sig and others do it all the time.