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OK so some Kahrs work well, but judging by the posts, a fair percentage don't . . . now, isn't it funny how not a single "bad" one was tested in ANY of the gun rags? NOT ONE?!

Kinda makes you go "Hmmmm . . . "

RPBrown wrote:Personally, I will not own another one as I don't feel I could trust my nor my families life on one. You know, Murphy's Law

Same here . . . with all the problems I had with my P9, and Kahr's inability to fix the pistol despite repeated tries, I just don't see myself trusting another Kahr pistol . . . somehow, in the back of my mind, there would always be the question "When is THIS one going to malfunction?"

Yeah, I know ANYTHING can malfunction - Murphy's Law and all - but personal experience trumps other people's testimonials, and once I have a pistol with seemingly unfixable problems, I'm going to avoid that brand.

I bought a PM-9 in 2002 and it never fed reliably . . . On to the P45 . . . Had failure to eject and slide lock problems . . . They offered to replace the pistol . . . I personally think they need about two years to get a new model running right, especially the compact polymers.

I have a P45 for which Kahr did the same thing . . .

Though Kahr does seem to stand behind their guns, it still sounds like Kahr is using it's customers as "beta-testers" when they introduce a new model.

Personally, despite the nice basic designs of Kahr pistols, I don't need the hassle . . . my own Kahr experience made me impose a new rule - disregard gun rag reviews, and don't buy a NEW model until there are four or five years worth of user reviews posted on forums like this.

I had a Kahr P9 - I found it to be a terrible gun.

What kind of problems did I have? Let's see . . . Failure to go into battery. Failure to lock back the slide after the last round and occasional premature slide lock. Trigger pin had a tendency to walk out. Trigger would not reliably actuate the striker.

It went back to Kahr repeatedly, and each time it would work for a bit, and then the problems would crop up again. (I was using name-brand commercial ammo, mostly WWB.)

Kahr eventually replaced the pistol, but I traded the new P9 for a Glock 26 before taking possession of the replacement. Maybe the replacement would have been OK, but I'm of the "once burned, twice shy" school of gun ownership, and didn't appreciate being Kahr's beta tester. (The G26 isn't as neat a package, but it has the virtue of actually working.)

I understand that the problems are "mostly" worked out now, but if you search other forums (such as The High Road) and look for posts on the P9 from a couple of years ago, you'll find that my problems were far from unique.