MR9 Striker

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lefkosia

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Hello All,

I bought a new MR9 and the firing pin broke off after about 100 rounds so I called Magnum Research. Spoke with Jeff and in a don't care attitude told me that strikers don't just break and I will have to pay to send it in. He was not rude but was not helpful and really did not seem to care. I learned my lesson about Magnum Research......

Anyone know where I can buy a new striker? MR will not sell them.

Jason
 
Yikes. Sorry to hear about the bad luck. That's terrible business practice. Most people that run guns in competition and stuff have a full set of spare parts. The idea that MR wouldn't sell them seems silly. Of course, I don't think the MR9 is big in the competition market.

Might as well just bite the bullet and pick up a Walther PPQ. If you get the M1 model, it will share the same mags as the MR9. And Walther USA is available and more than happy to sell you spare parts.
 
I wonder how many small companies have been killed off by employees with a "go to heck" attitude toward customers or stupid policies on parts and repairs.

Too many.

Jim
 
I wonder if it uses the same striker as the P99AS?
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Excellent question. The MR Eagle is a license-built clone, so there's a good chance many parts may interchange.

On a somewhat related and humorous topic, who else thinks it's funny that the MR Eagle is perhaps the only gun for which Google searches come up with a Muppet character? :D;)
 
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I think they are interchangable. I will call Walther tomorrow and buy one.

To be positive. This gun shoots like a dream and is very comfortable. The only thing I had to to do was cleanup the feed ramp and no other adjustments.
 
I hate to see a gun company go down to bad service. You might try asking for a supervisor. Who knows, that guy could be one step from fired already.
 
I have done some searching and this is how they respond. They want me to pay $161 plus shipping both ways on a 10 day old gun. Just going to buy the part if Walther will sell and let karma do its thing.
 
Remember that S&W once did the same sort of business deal with Walther that MR is doing today. The frames came from Walther and the slides were slightly redesigned and built by S&W. In other words, just what MR is doing.

You have to wonder if Walther slipped a decimal somewhere back in the '90s and made about a thousand times the number of frames they needed. Actually, the frames going to S&W and MR were and are the older short paddle mag release versions, so the change to long paddles might have been behind that sort of business dealing.

So looking at S&W strikers (or firing pins, check the recent thread on that terminology :p) might be a good idea.

Please report back on whether you find any interchangeability.

Bart Noir
 
Buy it on a credit card? Everyone pays more for products on the market thanks to credit cards. Part of that cost includes extended warranties offered by credit card companies on any purchase you make.

Yes. They use the same striker mechanism.
 
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Ok, spoke with Walther and they indicated their stiker assembly will not fit. Bought it anyway. I live in AR so I had to pay tax. $97 ouch! I'll post my results when the part comes in. Found a video on youtube by Daniel Sanders addressing the same situation if anyone is interested.

Soon I will be back to enjoying my pistol and hopefully the memory of getting !@#$%^ will fade.:eek:
 
Lessons learned:
Check parts availability before buying anything.
And replacement prices.
Check warranty reputation, too.
If there's less than stellar reports, buy something else.
There's a few manufacturers I've learned to avoid.
Guess there's one more, now.
Make that two.
 
To the OP:

Are you saying that you think you can work on the Walther part a little, and then it will fit and function in your MR pistol?

I hope that works out for you. Others have done that?

Bart Noir
 
The Walther stirker came in and it looks identical except the original was polished so I polished this one too. Dropped it in and the gun funcitions! YMMV.:D
 
Just as I said it would :)

You are too forgiving. You never should have let MR (Kahr Arms) off with such bad customer service. It unnecessarily cost you that $100. But do enjoy that MR9.
 
Yes, I see they were not going to budge and did not want to spend time fighting. Life is too short.

Checked on cc warranty too. They double but no repairs....good looking out. Thanks.
 
Glad you got your gun up and running. I had the Mr40 sitting #1 and the FNS-40 sitting #2 on my short list and opted for the fNS because of a deal I couldn't pass up. Glad I did after reading this.
600 flawless rounds so far;)
 
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