People bash them because of the polymer material used, but glock and (God I forget who else) use the same material.
The cool thing is it was posted from another forum to the hipoint site.
I was reading the problem with a cheap gun is it may only fire 20-30k rounds in a lifetime as a more expensive gun fires 60-70k in it's lifetime.
Now I have had my gun for 3 years maybe 1 more or less(I forget) anyway I have fired about 500+ rounds through it. So that gives me a long time before I the low end(20k).
Dont know about the 2 failures,but when I first got mine it jammed(my son took it out) after the first clip went through it.
I called hipoint and spoke to someone who later it turns out was the owner of the company.
He said he had some yahoos putting the guns together and they had put a spring in backward. He 1st asked if I felt comfortable enough taking a few pieces off the gun, which I did, and sure enough the spring was ibackwards. I removed and placed it right and it has shot well ever since. Plus they gave me a free mag for my troubles.
Mace