hickok45, HOW ARE YOU DIRTY OLD MAN? DO NOT BE MAD MY COMRADE! ALWAYS LIVE A HAPPY LIFE ( NO SUCH A WORST GUN EVER LISTED IN GUINNESS RECORD! THEY ONLY LISTED A VERY VERY VERY WORST SHOOTER EVER BORN ON THE PLANET! A PERMANENT RESIDENT WITH THE HISPANIC ANCESTORS! HIGH POINT GUNS NUMBER ONE! I AM A PROUD OWNER OF HI-POINT CARBINE 10MM!
Mental illness also isn't an all or nothing thing. You can be completely fine most of the time, but everyone has bad spells. I make sure all my friends know that I will hold onto anything they need me to if they are going through a rough spell. I have had a friend ask me to hold either parts or whole guns after bad breakups. I figure that having to drive a bit then talk to me gives them time to think through making a mistake.
A friend of mine has one of these. He seems to like it, but not sure why. He has a Glock, but he seems to have a lot of fun with his "Yeet cannon" I think he calls it. For a cheap gun, I'm a big fan of a 9mm Tokarev.
To your point Hickok, guns can be spread on a cafeteria table, for anyone in a school to grab and take, and it's OK. If they start killing, it not the gun they didn't have? It's the lack of constraint? You live in an alternative reality.
People love to hate on them, but they're inexpensive protection and they run. That's the whole point. They're never going to win a beauty contest, but they work.
In the process of deep cleaning my C9 several years ago, I " temporarily" removed the magazine safety, which is a stupid thing anyway, somehow it got lost in the process and guess what, the trigger improved a lot. It made a difference. Why did I by a Hi-point? Cuz I could. It's very accurate, I removed the interesting coating on the internals, again, it improved feeding and such. I still have it. It resides in a safe as the last surprise if opened under duress. Yes, it's bulky, limited mag capacity, but it works. The main issue i've found is the magazines themselves. If the mag lips are off a bit, you get FTF issues. Should Hi-point ever decide to step up their game and do a steel slide and better grips, i might consider another one. I have to admit, the carbine is a lot of fun, one of those in a .45 ACP might be in the future.
G43 was left behind but Mosin-Nagant still used to this today. Mosin-Nagant has good things for it being reliable, accurate. Mosin-Nagant is my best friend in video games.
Some armed guards buy them ok to start out then after they get a few checks in they buy something better . I went with the sd40ve tho when my funds were low .
My personal guess would be that they're getting kickbacks to deliberately design personal defense guns to be low ammo, heavy, and difficult to reload, in order for politicians to slowly and subtly sabotage gun owners and gun enthusiasm. To me that explains it all in a simple and logical sense. These guns are "popular" for one reason: They're cheap, and most non-enthusiast gun owners just want something cheap and that works, and that would make up the bulk of gun owners, as most people buy guns for home protection and keep them locked away until needed, never doing much beyond the initial training requirements. So people will naturally gravitate toward guns like this, at least, some percentage of total gun owners, and to politicians, that's all that matters, that they get to affect some percentage in one way or another, which makes sense as to why some guns are more quirky than they should be. Of course, gun makers won't give up their entire profit margins to this idealism being secretly pressed on them by politicians in backroom deals, but again, affecting some percentage is better than nothing to politicians, because results are results, even if small.
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It's a slippery slope but the basic truth of is cheap guns are just as, if not more important than top shelf guns because cost should never be a bar of entry to any law abiding citizen who wants to own a gun
Bill, friends.... Hi Peter North here old adult film star retired. I have this pistol. Don't like it . I'm thinking different brand now. Thx Peter North 👍👠
I have the full size in .40 S&W, it is accurate but it's also like holding a brick. I always joke that if all else fails I could always just throw it at the attacker. The slide is made from cast iron (which is notoriously brittle) and the slide also hangs up and doesn't return to full battery without pushing it forward manually about 1 in 4 shots. I'd sell it, but I don't want to be responsible for someone dying because it malfunctioned. There are much better options near the same price point, like the BGR Elite 9mm. Don't waste your money, just save another $50 and get something far more reliable and with a double-stack magazine.
If there is a gun on the market that low-income people can buy to protect themselves, it's really poor form for us Glock and Sig shooters to turn our noses up. So, the Second Amendment is only for those that can afford a premium firearm? Nonsense.
For someone that needs a cheap gun that works, and would not clean a gun anyway, they serve a purpose. Not my cup of tea but if I could afford nothing else it would do the job.
They work incredibly well. Very utilitarian. I have several more expensive guns but there is something to be said for a very inexpensive, reliable Ameeican made gun.
One of the most influential people in my life was my senior year of high school English teacher. That was more like an introduction to Philosophy than an English class. This was 1975-76, and he was super square, with a crew cut, but despite our cultural differences, he really opened my mind to a world that had been hidden from me until then.
With the reputation those things have it's a wonder Hi-Point doesn't hire an engineer to design something that works better, or just do like everyone else and make a Glock clone. I'm about as cheap as they come but even I never even considered one because of the fact that I don't know of a single C9 owner that doesn't have something bad to say about it. Usually it's multiple things, including reliability, which is an absolute must for a self-defense weapon. Those stovepipes you had happen don't seem to be isolated incidents.
