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I've only owned two. A PT111 that was a problem from the day I bought it. It was prone to light primer strikes and with 115 grain NATO ball, depending on the brand of ammo, it would reliably fire between 50 and 95 percent of the time. I went round and round with Taurus, the company I bought it from and my FFL and ended up shipping it to Taurus in Florida. It took five months for them to get it back to me with no explanation of what was wrong or what they did to fix it. Took it to the range. No change in performance. I sold it "as is" for fifty bucks.

The other is an 856 revolver that I sometimes carry as a backup gun. This is the gun that I learned how to perform a trigger job on a revolver on. Generally works now but the cylinder gap measures .004+ inches, twice what a comparable S&W would be. You have to be careful how you hold it or your knuckles get singed

From a former co-worker in Brazil I learned that when you send your Taurus to Miami for repairs they throw it into a 20 foot ocean container. When the container is full they load it on a ship and send it to Porto Alegre. When it get to PA it sits in bond for a day or two (or seven) until the ever efficient Brazilian customs guys clear it for entry. It's then trucked about 100 km up the river where it's pulled out of the container, inspected and passed off to repair. The gunsmiths have minutes not hours to diagnose and fix any problems. It's then thrown back in the ocean container and shipped back to Miami, clears customs and is trucked back to you. Having worked for 17 years in logistics this is not a process that fills me with confidence.