Pfft... Writers these days, no respect for brand hierarchy, m'right?
I miss the good ol' days when the value of a gun was determined by how much ad space the manufacturer purchased in the publication.
Lastly, I find it mighty suspicious that non of these writers have never had a Taurus fail apart or explode on the range, nor do they have any acquaintances who claim to have experienced such things like so many of the honest and highly accountable folks you so often see here or the internet do.
Seriously though, Taurus' bad reputation is dated and no longer accurate. Nowadays Taurus brand firearms are roughly equal to Ruger in terms of QC, their issue is that their Customer Service is among the worst in the industry, so when somebody gets a lemon, it comes along with the nightmare of dealing with their CS Representatives, which in turn sours them to the brand, and thus their reputation is perpetrated by the amount of folks who recount the tale.