Military Arms Channel review of the Remington RP9

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I watched the review and have been following the continuing problems he's posting on Instagram. For those of you without 30 min to kill watching it, the short version is "it doesn't work". Some of it could be that particular gun, and some of it is due to bad design (parts flexing that will never actually work).

You can pick up a full sized 9mm from almost anyone and have it work perfectly out of the box. "bad guns" usually fall into the pocket category where things are as small as possible, but we're not talking pocket 380s here.

Why would Remington release a product with such glaring flaws into a highly competitive market? Are there enough people that go "oohh... a Remington!" and just buy it and not expect it to work 100% as a pistol? Or say "It works 75% of the time but I'm saving money vs. buying a glock/sig/hk/ruger/S&W/kahr/taraus!"?

Did they make enough money on the R51 to try to rush something else to market?
 
It really does boggle the mind. How could they not have learned from the R51 debacle?
 
People always tell me I look like this guy, or come up at gun shows and say how much they enjoy my youtube channel, lol.

Remington: they don't make them like they used to!
 
I don't understand why anybody would even consider this after the R-51.

Glock, Sig P320, PPQ, VP9, etc. all available anywhere and proven designs. Don't get it.

But I guess people just don't know and see the Remmy name and figure they'll be ok?
 
How could this testing be any less rigorous than Remington's own tests? They had to know and released it anyway. Makes me wonder... do they actually profit from these blunders or what?
 
NKD;n78699 said:
People always tell me I look like this guy, or come up at gun shows and say how much they enjoy my youtube channel, lol.
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Wait, it's not? That's the whole reason I hang out with you, so I can tell people I know someone famous. Pffft. What a letdown.
 
Catfish;n78705 said:
How could this testing be any less rigorous than Remington's own tests? They had to know and released it anyway.
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That's what I don't understand. There are other vids on youtube showing the rounds flying out of the mag when inserted and tons of random failures.

But just the whole slide stop thing.... did they not give it to anyone and say "hey, try to use the controls on the left side"? Maybe marketing said "hmm.... it doesn't actually work... but... let's just call it a ambidextrous slide STOP and not a slide RELEASE! It does stop it after all. Perfect, put that in the manual. Left handed people don't exist and no one ever uses their off hand, the whole ambi thing is just a checkbox item."

I could work at Remington in the PR department.
 
I've been trying to figure out for the last 3-4 years if Remington just doesn't care what they put out anymore or if employee's are actually trying to sabotage the company. With so many blatant failures I can't see it all being honest mistakes. Not even the Model 700 I bought worked as it should. It wouldn't feed, it was the least accurate rifle I've ever owned, the action was clunky, trigger (which is a replacement for previous recalled model) was recalled, the finish tried it's best to rust away, the stock was throw-away quality at best. To me, Remington is one step below Hi-Point.
 
Maybe they have a gov't contract to make crappy guns that can then flood the illegal market and help protect the lives of LEOs by limiting the number of shots the bad guys can get off! ;)
 
I think maybe Remington just stopped giving a damn and know some folks will ignore/won't know about all the issues because it says Remington on the side like their great-grandpappies coon rifle.

Remember, there's a lot of gun owners out there that aren't forum members, or Youtube viewers who basically have to go on the recommendation of their retailers and the gun rags. And the gun rags NEVER properly review a gun that could cost them ad revenue. It's one of the reasons I quit subscribing.
 
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Looks like he got another one to test, put up another video. Might get a chance to watch it tonight and see what the second chance looks like.
 
Watched the 2nd video with the 2nd gun. This one didn't have any issues... except for the non-functional slide release on the left and live rounds flying out of the mag when you seat it. So 1 issue resolved, two remain. Maybe he just needs a 3rd gun.
 
Jayne;n79266 said:
Watched the 2nd video with the 2nd gun. This one didn't have any issues... except for the non-functional slide release on the left and live rounds flying out of the mag when you seat it. So 1 issue resolved, two remain. Maybe he just needs a 3rd gun.
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Or maybe he needs to move on to something not designed and built by muppets.....
 
After watching both videos.... F@#% remington.

Their lack of any sort of quality control in engineering and manufacturing speaks volumes about how they don't value customers.
 
muskrat;n79387 said:
After watching both videos.... F@#% remington.

Their lack of any sort of quality control in engineering and manufacturing speaks volumes about how they don't value customers.
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Much like Colt, they're reaping the last few harvests on their old reputation amongst those who aren't up to date about what they are now.
 
NCLivingBrit;n79360 said:
Or maybe he needs to move on to something not designed and built by muppets.....
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Bwahahahahahahaha if you could see the mental movie that this puts in my head......!!!!!:) :) :)
 
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NoNameHaveI;n79631 said:
Bwahahahahahahaha if you could see the mental movie that this puts in my head......!!!!!:) :) :)
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I'm pretty sure Dr Bunsen and Beaker are the QA crew for Remington these days.... with Animal Mother as the team lead.
 
Just looked up MSRP - $489. Wow.

I'm tempted to buy one to stick in a collection with a Colt 2000. LOL
 
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Here's the videos if anyone wants to check out what a POS this pistol is

 
I checked it out at the NRA show and confirmed that the slide release doesn't release.

I jokingly said that the left side isn't a slide release, it's just a slide lock. When the left handed member of our group spoke to the Remington rep in the booth and asked why he couldn't drop the slide with the left handed control, the rep said "it's by design, it's a slide lock and not a release. you have to release it with the other side". So it's not a bug, it's a feature!
 
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