No 'Kool-Aid", just a very good explanation of the MIM process. As far as my view of Taurus it is based on my personal experience with them, that of my Son, and friends who also own Taurus guns.
But this isn't a Taurus thread, it's an explanation of the MIM process.
Yes there was "Kool-Aid", a moderator of a Taurus forum invited to tour the Taurus plant and gushing about it? Surely you don't think that was an objective review, it was clearly a fan. I took exception with some of the authors superlatives, the guy was a Taurus junkie so he was going to be very favorable of MIM and MIM usage in guns, particularly in Taurus guns, but I also very clearly stated that I do not have a problem with MIM parts in guns, if applied properly and QC'ed properly.
I also do not have a problem with Taurus guns, I owned a PT92 that I loved and it was flawless, so I was not taking a shot at Taurus. I would still own it if my wife could have operated it, but it was too large for her petite hands. That being said I have also seen a Taurus PT145 literally explode in the hands of a guy standing next to me on the range. Taurus has had some QC/CS issues in the past and may still today, I don't know.
I have also seen a MIM part break on a S&W M&P 9mm, can't recall if it was the slide stop or the safety, but it snapped and fell off my buddies gun while he was firing it at the range. I didn't read it on the internet, or hear about it from my cousins uncles girlfriends baby daddys roommate. I saw it happen. MIM may not be the best choice for all applications in a firearm, though they certainly are cheaper and easier to make, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
But if MIM is inferior; if MIM parts are breaking all over the place, if police and armed citizens are dying in the streets by the thousands because their MIM guns break or fail; if companies are stopping its use amid tens of thousands of law suits, then MIM is bad.
Seriously, you degrade your own argument with statements like this. Thousands? Really? If there was was ONE documented case of a MIM part failing a cop or armed citizen in the act of defending themselves, that would be enough for me.
If you want expensive guns, you can buy English shotguns that are hand filed out of steel blocks, take years to make, and cost fifty times the salary of the average American. If nothing less will satisfy you, fine. I envy you being able to afford such a work of art. But if you want a reasonably well made gun that you might be able to afford, why complain about cost saving?
Oh Boy. Here we go again with the extreme examples. I am reasonably sure there is a happy medium somewhere between guns hand filed from a block of steel and lowest common denominator, mass produced, MIM and plastic, soulless guns. At least there is for me, but that might just be the "mall-ninja" in me talking.
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