Davis 32 ACP Derringer. Fired when it wanted to. I traded it in to a guy who said it had almost no trade-in value; he gave me $5 for it. I smiled & shook his hand. Knocked $5 off the price of a Beretta 21A.
Iver Johnson Sidewindere in 22lr -22mag Purchased 1977
First time I used it, about round #30 of .22 mag the barrel split half way down. I returned it to the dealer, who ordered another from Iver. This one lasted about a month before the case extractor fell off. The dealer told me he wasn't doing business with Iver anymore, and I was SOL. I still have this POS. I slept through the gun by backs the city offered a few years back. Hopefully, there will be another. Great way to get good cash for bad firearms.
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Davis 32 ACP Derringer. Fired when it wanted to. I traded it in to a guy who said it had almost no trade-in value; he gave me $5 for it. I smiled & shook his hand. Knocked $5 off the price of a Beretta 21A.
-Kevin
Some Erma Copy of a Luger in .22LR. It Mis-Fired, Stove Piped, Extractor Broke, Grips Cracked, Shot 7 -8 inches to the Right @ 20 Feet.... You could Only Load 5 rounds in Magazine as the top round would POP out the top if you Loaded more.
We Finally Carried it In the Truck Just to Use as a "Throw-Away"..... (Back in the Day).
Captain
Extraction Squad
Makati City, Manila
Philippines
I'm going to have to say its my Pheonix .22 that I bought around the late 90's sometime. Field stripped it once and never got it back together right, and I've never had a problem getting anything else apart/together I've ever owned.
NRA Certified Instructor: Pistol, PPITH
NRA Life Member, 3 x Iraq War Vet
A .40 cal made by star. Im still too pissed off to talk about it.
Grendel .380s - two of 'em. Got $50 each at a gun "buy back" program. Couldn't have given them away otherwise. Thanks government!
Avidshooter (Texas)
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." -- Plutarch
RG 22! They wouldn't even make a good blank gun!
USAF Retired, CATM, SC CWP, NH NR CWP, NRA Benefactor
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them... -- Richard Henry Lee, 1787
Had an AMT back-up in .380. Traded a nickel Colt King Cobra .357 for it at a gun show fifteen years ago. Ahhh, the stupidity of youth. Fired full auto 3 round burst, followed by two round burst, followed by a single every single time. Sent the gun back to AMT. When it came back to my local dealer, I traded it in on the spot towards a Delta Elite 10mm. Took a beating on that one, but I was getting smarter!!!!
Jennings 9mm. rough workmanship, mags don't seat all the way in, FTF, FTE, recoil spring fatigued so slide won't return fully and load next round. Extractor claw pin works it's way out, orange "cocked" indicator moves out too far and almost falls out. Will not fire a full mag because mags don't seat fully into grip, so next round does not get picked up.
Can't think of anything else at the moment, but I'm sure if I kept trying to fire it more things would go wrong. and I've only put about 50 rounds thru it. Better luck trying to throw it at some one.