There was once a guy who swore up and down about hi point, over and over again he wrote magazines and told them they were all wrong. One day he was confronted while in his vehicle by a man who told him to get out of his vehicle. The HI Point lover drew his trusty .45cal Hi point and aimed and pulled the trigger, BAM the slide shattered ripping off the frame and slamming into his left eye socket killing him. the criminal who was fine pulled his lifeless corpse out of his car and drove off.
Yeah Hi point is good. if you dont mind running the chance of having a cheaply made slide fly off and penetrate your skull.
I maybe be releativly new to gunsmithing but the materials in this gun are less quality than toy guns. you want a cheap gun made well, Rock Island 1911 for around $400 all steel design accurate as hell out of the box just throw in a new trigger and have fun.
I have a Gun Tests magazine somewhere that did a test of several 9mm handguns, including the Hi-Point. Hi-Point got their highest marks. Gun Tests doesn't do these reviews for the manufacturers, they buy their guns from a gun store, so there's no question of bias on their part.the thing is those magazines are paid to do positve reviews, look what a highpoint is made of. the quality is in the material and quality control.
I don't know about Ohio. I like in Philadelphia and HiPoints are just plain unavailable. I suppose gun stores don't like selling them because of a low profit margin, or maybe because of the perception that an inventory of Hi Points will draw an undesirable crowd or straw purchasers that don't mind purchasing for the local criminal.
They can easily be looked upon as the old ring of fire guns....Ravens,Jennings,Bryco,Lorcin,etc. No money in selling them, and a raft of trouble in the future relative to trace backs after criminal activity.
Those are names from yesteryear and like the HiPoints these $80-$100 guns were maligned by the people that did not own them, but loved by the people that did. The Justice Department data regarding the common occurances that these guns were used in crime caused Mr. Jennings, the owner and manufacturer of all those brands, to be sued out of business. The guns were made in California and I believe they were sued by that pathetic state.
the thing is those magazines are paid to do positve reviews, look what a highpoint is made of. the quality is in the material and quality control.
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