Most of these guns were manufactured in Southern California. There they were know as deadly firearms. As a matter of fact, the rep was there was an even chance it would either kill the gas station attendant is was pointed at who was being robbed or the person shooting it.
They are a joke, and they are dangerous. Check out the second post in this thread, these stories abound about these cheap guns.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=344714
My hands and eyesight is too precious to trust to such junk. If that makes me a snob, so be it.