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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 1409038" data-attributes="member: 7123"><p>Depends - lock or no lock? Whichever one does NOT have the lock. Neither one if they both do - go older.</p><p></p><p>I cannot fathom why anyone would want or consider buying a PPK, new, used, old, or otherwise - after consistently reading year after year after year dozens upon dozens of the same old reports of very sketchy reliability and getting bitten, particularly with high price - and that was BEFORE they became completely obsolete with the new smaller .380s about 10 years back. LET ALONE how people seem to want to seek them out and get them for some odd reason. A lot like Glocks in that respect. At least Glocks are very reliable, which you cannot say for the PPK.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I think Clampett is right and makes a good point - how can you trust a maker to use good quality parts in *anything* when they use crap parts in *anything else* they make? I wouldn't touch any S&W revolver made past 1985, or maybe 1990 myself. Barrel shrouds instead of crush fit, no P&R, locks ... it all just starts to make me queasy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow, post: 1409038, member: 7123"] Depends - lock or no lock? Whichever one does NOT have the lock. Neither one if they both do - go older. I cannot fathom why anyone would want or consider buying a PPK, new, used, old, or otherwise - after consistently reading year after year after year dozens upon dozens of the same old reports of very sketchy reliability and getting bitten, particularly with high price - and that was BEFORE they became completely obsolete with the new smaller .380s about 10 years back. LET ALONE how people seem to want to seek them out and get them for some odd reason. A lot like Glocks in that respect. At least Glocks are very reliable, which you cannot say for the PPK. Having said that, I think Clampett is right and makes a good point - how can you trust a maker to use good quality parts in *anything* when they use crap parts in *anything else* they make? I wouldn't touch any S&W revolver made past 1985, or maybe 1990 myself. Barrel shrouds instead of crush fit, no P&R, locks ... it all just starts to make me queasy. [/QUOTE]
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