No doubt Taurus is better than jiminez, bryco and all them. The G2 is a pretty darn good gun for the money, I won't argue that, I've had one myself and put a few hundred rounds through it and liked it. I just don't trust it, there's no way to know or quantify when or if metal parts on a gun will fail. But when you have a Taurus you're just not stacking the odds in your favor.I don't because I saw someone put 10000 rounds through one on youtube but by the fact that I've seen it several times now, that I personally have a few thousand through my personal one as do all of my buddies that have had them and I don't know about pot metal. pretty sure that is still used exclusively in all of the cobra, jiminez, bryco that are actual pieces of **** that really would do more damage if you threw one at someone