Your money- your gun.
Still doesn't change the fact that - it's a Taurus.
Why on Earth would you dismiss that?
Saying "Its a Taurus" is simply a statement of fact.
It's not the words, It's the implication behind those words.
I mean if I asked you about Ford Trucks, and you said.. It's a Ford.
What do you think that means? at face value you're simply stating it's a Ford but is that even remotely helpful? I'd say it's borderline spam.
No.. when someone says "It's a Taurus" The implication is it's bad because the brand get's trashed constantly online.. Some with legit gripes but many who just pile on and repeat things and have no clue.
It's the same situation with Hi-point which I found a 90% of the trash talked about them to be unfounded.
But hey it's a cheap gun and it must mean it's a junk gun and not nearly as good as this other gun that cost 3x as much so *parrot* *parrot* *parrot*
I won't pretend Taurus does not sometimes royally F up, But in my experience it's not as bad as people make it out to be.
When ever someone claims they work at a gun shop or know the owner or employee's at a gun shop that claims X% of returns are Taurus or blah blah blah.
I can only wonder why is that shop still selling Taurus if they're so bad?
why would you want the headache?
why would you sell a brand proven to be a PoS to customers?
What exactly does that say about the character of the shop owner?
Anyhow - I strongly recommend going through this thread before buying a Taurus.
https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=582878
Taurus (the company) appears to be having all sorts of problems right now.
Im not sure if problems is the right way to put it.
I think there is some political *stuff* happening in Brazil but I don't think it affects export to the US too much, Im not really familiar enough to say for sure.
The catalog has been slashed however, no question there.. lot of lines have been dropped the surviving lines are shrinking.
Taurus use to make a LOT of variations on their guns, Im sure you've seen the pimp edition guns.. those are all gone but it went further then that.
Taurus is really into the polymer conceal carry gun market now.
I think they've over corrected in the course change but they aren't going away or out of business any time soon.
TL;DR No gun brand is perfect, Lot of the bashing is done by parrots and people who dog-pile. What little truth is at the center is usually overblown to be dramatic.