I had a Llama Mini-Max, kind of like the Para Warthwag....
It was a waste, I would have paid someone to take it away.
Every possible problem you could think of occurred.
There are only two firearms manufacturers that I rant about, and this is one of them. The other is one of the nations finest custom pistolsmiths. Believe it or not, I would buy a LLama before one of his.
First, bear in mind for every person dissatisfied, no doubt there is someone out there who has 1,298,388 rounds through a LLama and it will still group well.
Now, since you asked, I have never in 40 years of shooting, (several of those spent in youthful ignorance, buying SNSs and el cheapo pot metal shooters for little or nothing (and getting little or nothing) bought, found, or been given a sorrier non-shooting POS than a LLama. This particular pistol (a .45) was the most cheaply built, loosest, most unreliable, inaccurate gun I have ever fired or witnessed fired. The construction made a RG revolver look like a Colt Python. The accuracy of 10 rounds at 10 yards could only be duplicated with 00 buck at 50 yards. The finished could be scratched by a PICTURE of a diamond. Customer service was obliviously ignorant about weapons when they responded, but, they thankfully spared the customer that indignity by ignoring all calls and letters.
I simply cannot imagine any carry weapon choice as poor as a LLama.
The only possible justification for carrying one, and it is a huge stretch, is that if someone takes your pistol during a fight, they possess only a blunt instrument. There is little danger of being shot.
If you take every bad, undesirable trait that can be manufactured into a gun, LLama will possess them all. To the worst possible degree.
I have heard that one factory where these "firearms" (in quotes because they rarely "fire" and you simply do NOT possess an "arm" when you purchase one) were manufactured had been burned (no doubt by an irate customer, who was probably STILL on hold with customer service when he returned home from the felonious deed) and subsequently sold, bulldozed, and constructed on the site was a
sewage processing plant. It should be noted that THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE TYPE OF PRODUCTION OUTPUT (think about it....it will hit you). This could well be a perfect example of "divine justice" particularly if the engineers and QC employees of LLama are employed in the new business.
I suggest you look to much, much higher quality, more reliable weapons. Start with Jennings, Lorcin, RG revolvers, hell, even a zip gun manufactured by some gang-banger in East LA using a car radio antenna would be a step in the right direction.
