Probably improperly stored shit ammo and poor overall maintenance.
Polish your feed ramps to mitigate the inconsistencies of poorly manufactured and/or dirty ammunition.
Pistols require higher quality ammo and more maintenance. Heat and moisture is problematic moreso on pistols than revolvers. And high humidity is a serious issue for ammo.
As you get into south America, all of these become potential factors. As Plato points out, Taurus and CZ is very popular here. Taurus' older pistols have a terrible reputation for reliability and quality control. Especially from their Brazilian factories.
Keep them clean, use good ammo, proper technique, and any quality pistol should not jam. Ignore those things and you introduce variables that increase the likelihood of a malfunction. I have a Taurus PT92 that I've owned for over 30 years, I've put at least a couple thousand rounds through it and I can't ever remember having it jam or otherwise malfunction. It shoots as good today as it did when brand new, possibly better.
If I practice with it, I clean it, and it's always ready to go when I need it.
They are probably shooting one handed and limp wristing.
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Taurus is a Brazilian company. Mystery solved.
That's a comment at least a decade out of place. Their pistols are reliable these days. Even people who formally disliked them have commonly changed their tune these days.
Now, their older weapons, I completely agree with you.
Any jams I've ever had are tracible to ammo or limp wristing. Some pistols just don't like some ammo. You find out by shooting it. My Gen 2 Glock 17 hates steel cased ammo, especially Wolf. 1000% reliable with anything else. Sure, you can work on the gun to make it feed the ammo, but it is easier to just not buy that ammo. (Edit: Related to ammo is magazines. Sometimes mags get damaged, and won't reliably feed the gun. Number your mags and keep track.)
Limp wristing is entirely technique. You just learn to lean into the recoil and it will always cycle.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of these potential assassins learned all they know about guns from movies and TV...
Pro hitmen favor the .22 revolver. Basically no risk of jamming, not much noise or recoil, and the small bullet rattles around inside the skull, turning the brain into mush. Drop the gun in a trash can or vacant lot a few blocks away, some nigger will find it, hopefully get busted with it, and charged for the murder you committed when they match the slug to a ballistics test.
Revolvers are the coolest. I swear, speciall clint eastwood 44 mag
But reloading, esp when some nigger is shooting at you, is faster with a semi-auto
I use reload that are 20 years old. Got 1200 rounds for 115 work point bucks. I'd be a goner seeing I jam around every 5th bullet. The good news is I only have 2 boxes left. The bad news is ammo coast too much.
Could be a number of things.
Terrible ammo, poor grip, no maintenance.
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