Quote/ After reading reviews about the SR guns, this problems should have been taken care off before these guns left the plant. Glad my gun works, but makes me weary about purchasing a used Ruger. /Unquote
How do you know this?^^^^^ What is the percentage of these reviews about these "problems" as compared to the number of SR45s that were/are produced and work fine? Do you know how the guns are tested prior to being boxed up? Should Ruger run 400 rounds of differently configured ammo before boxing it up?
If you buy a car/boat/power saw/toaster/can opener and it has problems, do you say the same thing? Do you go on line and complain about it? How about the hundreds of thousands of SR45's that come out of the factory with no problems at all? Guess what, all those fine working guns don't get posted about how well they work. On gun forums you only see the ones that aren't working as they should and people automatically bad mouth ALL of them.
In ALL of manufacturing there are a percentage of items being turned out and bought by consumers that will not work correctly. It is a fact of life, it is understood by all manufacturers that this will happen. They try to get that percentage as low as possible but it will never be zero (unless you want your production numbers to plummet and the consumer cost to skyrocket). Some people get unlucky and get the problem item. But then there are companies that understand that and when informed, they do what they need to to get the item to work correctly. And even then, sometimes the repairs don't work. Ruger also realizes this and people have had complete firearms replaced after Ruger just couldn't get it to work correctly.
In the years that I have owned Rugers I have had to send several back. Ruger took them, fixed them and I never had any problems with those firearms again. I didn't go on forums (or before the internet talk to every single person that I could) and bad mouth the guns. I knew it could happen, it can happen to anything manufactured by humans OR machines.
If your SR45 is now functioning correctly AND you have put several hundred rounds down range without a problem, personally I would not have any problems using it for a self defense firearm. And yes, I do own a SR45 and I love it. It did have a problem when new (intermittent light primer strikes) but I didn't scream it to the world that it has a defective gun and that problem should have been caught at the factory. I called Ruger, explained my problem, sent it back with their provided shipping label and tested it when it was returned. They did replace a couple parts but they were parts in a striker fired semi auto could go bad at any time, first shot or 5000th.
I really don't know why people insist on bad mouthing these guns with problems (actually I do because the internet makes it easy to do and be basically incognito to possibly millions of readers with no repercussions). Just do what most people who bought something that has a problem, call the maker and see what they will do to remedy the problem. You really don't need to broadcast it to the world. Oh, and guess what, if enough people are contacting the manufacturer about the same problem, you will probably see a recall or an engineering change happen, the company lawyers will see to that.
Off soapbox now. And if any reply is "Well, he's a Ruger fan boy" Damn right I am, I can't say that I have seen too many firearms that work as well as Rugers do for what they sell for.