The Jiménez ja9 (9mm)
I bought this lousy pile of excrement on accident. Many
people have asked how you accidently buy a gun. well on the gun broker.com gun
auction sight they have a spot for penny auctions (meaning they start at a
penny and sell for whatever the high bid is when the timer runs out.) From time
to time I like to play with them, and I typically just bid $50 on everything
and then nothing comes of it, well not this time. I got an email said I had won
an auction, so confused and slightly excided I jumped on the website to see
what I had won and it was a two tone Jiménez with a broken rear site that
looked like someone had thrown it off of a high rise. All the seller said was
that it was bought from a police auction (smaller police departments make
additional funds by selling the confiscated weapons from crimes to gun dealers
as a lot.) meaning that it was at one point used to commit a crime in somewhere
near Pittsburg. To this day I don’t remember bidding on the gun, it is normally
one that I would skip over, but I had committed to buy it so I paid the man and
had it shipped to my local FFL dealer for the transfer. In the end all the fees
and shipping and the buy price came to $130. I got it home and cleaned it, then
I polished the feed ramp (something I do to all my pistols.) and took it to the
range. It did cycle, but it was heavy small uncomfortable, inaccurate, had the
single worst trigger of all time (it made the m17s trigger look like a jewel),
was hard to aim with just the front sight and the left half of the rear, the
slide wouldn’t lock to the rear on empty, and the mag had sharp edges all over
it. I would never buy a Jennings, Jiménez or a bryco again, I didn’t mean to
this time (all three are the same gun BTW.)
THE GOOD:
N/A
THE BAD:
It’s all bad.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
This gun does have a purpose despite it being terrible in
every way. If you want to kill someone and not have it cost you a bunch of
money to dispose of the murder weapon, than this is the gun for you. Otherwise
steer clear. On a side note the guy I sold it to had plans to fix it and flip
it. When I saw it go up for sale on the sight I sold it on, I contacted the guy
and asked what he had done to it, he said he got a new sight, and cleaned it
up. Then he said something I thought was crazy. He said h really didn’t want to
sell it because it shot so great for him and he liked it better than his
m&p shield, but that he had promised his wife he would sell it, so he was. Maybe he was clinically
insane, but more than likely I may have been too harsh on the gun. I think he was expecting a terrible gun, and
it maybe wasn’t whereas I was expecting an ok gun (comparable to my highpoint)
and found it wanting. No, on second thought I think he is insane. J
