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they can say all they want about being reliable but your gun jams and i have seen in person (i've seen this happen twice) someone shooting a hi-point and the frame braking in half. i'm sorry but that is more then enough reason for me to recomend people to stay away from those junk guns and me to never own one. i have had my glock for about 10 years and it has never jamed one time.

 

ashley used to get mad at me when i told her how junk hi-point guns are because she grew up with the owners daughter.

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I can't find anything anywhere about hi-points with broken frames got a link?

 

I've ran thousands of rounds through mine without a hiccup using anything from junk ass wolf stuff to higher end federal and remington stuff.

 

I'd rather have a kimber too, but at that price point you could own four or five hi-points

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No offense to any Hi Point owners but those guns are just junk. When I was in the police academy 2 people bought them against the instructors advice. Not a single person in my class of 22 ever had a problem at the range except for the 2 people who were using Hi Points. I have seen it with my own eyes and heard countless horror stories. I personally would rather pay a higer price for a gun just for peace of mind. I wanna know its gonna work if I ever have to pull it.
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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.

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People bash them because of the polymer material used, but glock and (God I forget who else) use the same material.
No they don't

 

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.
You are talking tolerances of the whole gun vs having a barrel shot out. I know guys with Glocks with 150k rounds through them with just different barrels

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 shoot a gun 2000 rounds before I will carry it or will put it beside the bed. 1500 of those rounds have to be consecutively flawless. 500 is not a benchmark of reliability.

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

 

They have always had good customer service, but this statement shows the quality of their manufacturing and why the majority of people will not trust a hi-point.

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guns are like cars ppl, everyone has their own preference, dont let someone talk you out of owning it if you want too......there are horror stories for everything made in the world today, doesnt mean everything is junk......

 

oh and its funny how many threads you get on and there are 50 ppl bashing hipoints 50% of them have never shot one or held one but a friend of a friend has and they are junk, the next 30% are new ppl to guns and bought what ever some one told them to on a forum so new to guns they automatically now think hipoints are junk, those ppl know who they are, and perhaps the last 20% left are real gun owners that have owned every type of gun and just plain dont like them, they never bash them but just state they dont like them.....

 

 

i own a carbine in 9mm have shoot countless rds thro it, everything from factory ammo to relaods jhp to lead, never had any real problems, had maybe 4 jams all from reloads which was my fault not the guns, tightened down the oal and never had a prob again

 

if you want to own a certain type of gun,car,watch, porn, etc then own it dont let someone on the internet cloud your choice......

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form wikapedia on glock:

 

The Glock's frame, magazine body and several other components are made from a high-strength nylon-based polymer invented by Gaston Glock and called Polymer 2

 

Also 1500 rds how many people will shoot this much unless its an only gun,

you want a reliable shooter use a revolver

 

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form wikapedia on glock:

 

The Glock's frame, magazine body and several other components are made from a high-strength nylon-based polymer invented by Gaston Glock and called Polymer 2

I am sorry, I should have bolded the part I was saying "no they don't" to. People do not chastise hi-point because of the polymer frame.

 

Also 1500 rds how many people will shoot this much unless its an only gun,

you want a reliable shooter use a revolver

 

Every gun I own that is used for competition or protection has at least 2000 rounds and 1500 consecutive good rounds through it. I've always said, if you want a hi-point for plinking be my guest, but seeing as how I have never shot one more than 50 rounds without a ftf I would never trust one for any protection or competition duties.

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form wikapedia on glock:

 

The Glock's frame, magazine body and several other components are made from a high-strength nylon-based polymer invented by Gaston Glock and called Polymer 2

 

Also 1500 rds how many people will shoot this much unless its an only gun,

you want a reliable shooter use a revolver

 

mace

 

A lot of us put more than 1500 rounds through our guns. I don't do 1500 as a pre req, but it's not a bad idea.

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try this page down to features:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol

 

But before you do look at operating mechanisms first line ..dont be drinking anything and take wikepedia with a grain of salt not everything on there is verified

 

I'm not trying to convince anyone to buy one just saying there is a lot of info that is misleading.

 

mace

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well need one more to hit 300...lol

right now when I shoot I can only do it with one hand(had reconstructive surgery on my wrist(no not from shooting the hipoint ) but form a mc accident in 04, anyway I have been shooting it one handed and it isnt that uncomfortable..heavy yes no more that the 357

 

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No offense to any Hi Point owners but those guns are just junk. When I was in the police academy 2 people bought them against the instructors advice. Not a single person in my class of 22 ever had a problem at the range except for the 2 people who were using Hi Points. I have seen it with my own eyes and heard countless horror stories. I personally would rather pay a higer price for a gun just for peace of mind. I wanna know its gonna work if I ever have to pull it.

 

2 people (out of 12) in my ccw class brought in HiPoints. My instructor tried to be nice but in so many words simply told them to get rid of it and buy a real gun. One of the guys who brought it said he left his Sig at home and brought this one in stead, my instructor rolled his eyes.

 

what problem did they have?

 

if I'm sitting on a time bomb i'd like to unload it but if everyone just talks them down becuase they look ugly and only cost 100 bucks.....

 

Ive always heard they're not only unreliable but are prone to accidental discharge. Again, my instructor (a former cop) had nothing nice to say about them and did say more people were killed by hipoints and accidental discharges than any other manufacturer but he didnt site any statistics or anything, i think this was just his first hand experience.

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2 people (out of 12) in my ccw class brought in HiPoints. My instructor tried to be nice but in so many words simply told them to get rid of it and buy a real gun. One of the guys who brought it said he left his Sig at home and brought this one in stead, my instructor rolled his eyes.

 

 

 

Ive always heard they're not only unreliable but are prone to accidental discharge. Again, my instructor (a former cop) had nothing nice to say about them and did say more people were killed by hipoints and accidental discharges than any other manufacturer but he didnt site any statistics or anything, i think this was just his first hand experience.

 

 

who was your instructor?

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try this page down to features:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol

 

But before you do look at operating mechanisms first line ..dont be drinking anything and take wikepedia with a grain of salt not everything on there is verified

 

I'm not trying to convince anyone to buy one just saying there is a lot of info that is misleading.

 

mace

 

looks like alot of people use glock. nobody employs hi-point weapons according to that site.

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i'll see if my dad still has the pictures. both of them broke just above the trigger.

 

i did also find this though, i have never seen this happen to anything before.

http://www.hipointfirearmsforums.com/Forum/index.php?topic=15746.0

 

I had a glock do this to me years ago... they however wouldn't stand behind their product.

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