I’m too lazy to click through and read the rest.
I like mid-priced guns. Rugers, Brownings, Smith & Wesson.
No Hi Points for me.
I have a Hi Point 9MM. I wish they sold their .40 and .45 her in CA, but they don’t bother with all the hoops they would have to jump through to do so.
My Hi Point was cheap to purchase, it has a Lifetime Warranty, it’s heavy, it ain’t pretty but it has never failed to go Bang when I pull the Trigger.
It’s sits in my Gun Safe right next to my Smith and Wesson Model 29 which was expensive, is heavy (being a .44) and has also never failed to go Bang when I pull the Trigger.
Of course being a Revolver insures it always goes Bang, LOL.
I always work up the energy to read Massad Ayoob.