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I've put a couple hundred rounds through my "newer" (not newest, with the nicely molded magazine release button) with very few problems ... mostly failures to return to battery. Nine times out of 10 a light tap on the back of the slide will make it ready to fire. When that doesn't work, tap-rack-bang works.
I do notice the failures happen much more often near the end of the range session when the gun is dirtied. I have never had a problem on the first 3-4 magazines of a session -- this is why I trust it for personal protection, as I try to keep my guns spotless.
One thing that has happened on occasion is I lose track of the number of rounds fired and end up dry-firing when expecting a bang. If I could make one request to Ruger, I'd ask for an automatic slide stop on an empty magazine. Other than that, I'm very happy with the little guy.
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