NC: Alcohol Enforcement Agency Gets Bad Guns

(Raleigh, North Carolina) The state alcohol enforcement agency reports that new firearms purchased for its agents are pieces of crap.

Kimber .45 caliber pistols (150 bought @ $1,055 each) have repeatedly malfunctioned during training exercises.

Agency Director John Ledford said a deal was arranged with a local firearms dealer to swap the pricey handguns for less expensive models.[…]

Since the Kimbers were issued to agents in the fall of 2009, Ledford wrote, agents reported 289 malfunctions during training exercises, and many agents had chosen to carry personal weapons instead of the Kimbers.

Ledford said a deal was arranged to trade in the department's troublesome pistols to a Raleigh firearms dealer in exchange for 150 new Sig Sauer 220 handguns valued at $718 each.

Bad guns not good.

On a personal note, I'm not prepared to believe a blanket assertion that Kimber makes bad guns. Undoubtedly, there's more to the story.