I am a member of multiple gun boards and in all those boards there is a group of people I call "gun snobs." These are the people who think any gun under a certain dollar amount must be crap. They think that just because it costs less then 600 bucks, it is automatically junk. These people think Taurus and CZ weapons are junk. Ian Hogg and John Weeks both called the CZ75 the finest combat pistol in the world. Jeff Cooper raved about the CZ75 over and over. These same people think that Hi Point pistols, being both very cheap in cost and ugly as sin are considered by those that actually have owned and used then to be 100% reliable.
The three tiers that most gun snobs use are:
1) Hk, Sig, S&W (some), Kimber, Glock, Beretta, Kahr, Para Ord, Colt, etc
2) Ruger, CZ, Taurus, Springfield, Beretta, Browning, S&W (some), etc
3) Hi Point, Rossi, Bersa, Charter Arms, etc
There is nothing wrong with Ruger or Beretta, except that they aren't expensive. Rugers are considered to be 100% reliable and built like a tank. The Springfield Xd is probably the best selling pistol of the last year, but tell a gun snob and he will laugh and tell you it is a crappy copy of the Glock, which it is not.
My three tiers are
1) Good, expensive guns--Korth, Kahr, Para Ord, Kimber, HK, Browning, Colt, etc
2) Good inexpensive guns--Hi Point, Ruger, Beretta, CZ, Glock, Springfield, S&W, Taurus, Rossi, Charter Arms, etc
3) Junk guns--Davis, Sundance, Lorcin, etc
