Thanks for all the respnses. I ask in the original post for experience and opinions from those that have personal experience and owners. I was not interested in opinions from those that have no intimate feel for Hi Points. As usual, we got lots of negative opinions from those without personal "experience", but strong anti-opinions. After due diligence, I bought my C9 on Tuesday and the first trip to the range was very impressive, dead on target and Zero hiccups.