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Clearly Academy's no-dry-fire policy hasn't hurt their sales enough for them to consider alternatives. I suspect that part of the policy has to do with sales staff that are often poorly trained (in firearms and safety with firearms) as well as them selling ammo off the shelf. They want to avoid as much risk as possible, which isn't too hard to understand. OTOH, their policy makes sourcing new firearms from others with a different policy more attractive to me.

I can't comment with first-hand experience of any Taurus Auto-loaders. The PT-92/99 had a good reputation, but I understand that it was mostly made on Beretta machinery related to a Brazilian contract. Later models haven't seemed to enjoy such a good reputation, though.