I've had a compact Taurus 9mm and the big .44mag Taurus Raging Bull for deer hunting, both bought new. I had problems with both.

The 9 was a small double action only with tritium sights. A month or so after I got it the front sight flew off at the range. I couldn't find it and Taurus refused to replace it, even if i paid for it.

The .44 magnum fired the first six rounds just fine but then I could not eject the brass. I had to pound them out with a rod. Turns out they had put the cylinder of a .45 Long Colt into the frame and with the barrel of a .44 magnum. You had to mic the cylinder to find the error. The .44 rounds fired just fine but the brass would expand in the slightly over sized cylinder and jam. It took Taurus six weeks to put the correct cylinder on. It always worked fine afer that.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.