# Worst firearms ever made? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256 "2008-04-14T04:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/21 "2008-04-14T21:53:03Z")
I have a Taurus PT92. While it’s not a total POS, it’s not a very well-made pistol. It took me a while to figure out what type of ammo to use to get it to feed reliably. It absolutely will not feed hollow-points - they “flip up” and get stuck as the slide closes. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/22 "2008-04-14T22:16:30Z")
I’m gonna add the [Serbu Butt-Master](http://www.serbu.com/legacy/buttmaster.htm) , if for no other reason than the allusion to how it’s intended to be holstered. ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/23 "2008-04-14T23:25:02Z")
I have a Jennings P-22 which I have fired a couple hundred rounds through, but there are a few things I don’t like. I don’t trust the safety: it’s a slider that can be inadvertently moved to “fire.” You can chamber a round with it set to “safe,” but the internal hammer will not cock. That doesn’t sound too bad, but since the same action _will_ produce a cocked hammer with the safety off, I don’t feel comfortable with it. The grip is very, very small. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/24 "2008-04-15T00:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] Where is this from? Is it just an image, or was it really a physical object? [/QUOTE] Got it off another forum where a guy posted the image as a joke. I don’t know if someone actually built one, or if it’s photoshopped. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/25 "2008-04-15T00:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Got it off another forum where a guy posted the image as a joke. I don’t know if someone actually built one, or if it’s photoshopped. [/QUOTE] It’s a photoshopped Nagant M1895 revolver. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/26 "2008-04-15T06:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] It’s a photoshopped Nagant M1895 revolver. [/QUOTE] Reminds me of a band called Fuckface. They had a patch you could get with a drawing of a backwards revolver. ---
**Author:** ![JimB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JimB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimB)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/27 "2008-04-15T07:54:17Z")
Jimenez Arms has improved the quality of their guns immensely over the past few years. I have 2 JA-.380 that were manufactured a couple years ago and they are absolutely ace. The choice of babysitters across America. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256/28 "2008-04-15T15:49:47Z")
25 years ago when I worked in Tulsa’s largest pawnshop and gun dealership, we sold lots of Ravens and Jennings. For the price, about $55 at the time, I’d say that they weren’t a bad deal. I don’t remember very many of them being returned for repairs. The safety issue that **Harry1945** mentioned was a real concern. The biggest piece of crap that we sold was the [RG-14](http://www.gun-parts.com/rohm/apr28_01.jpg). We sold them used :eek: for about $20. In fact, anything made by RG was inherently unsafe IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-firearms-ever-made/445256.md?page=1)