Quoted: My RIA's sear CRUMBLED after 20rds. I then replaced some of the controls, and installed a bulletproof sear, and then nothing but malf after malf.
Moral: AVOID RIAs!!!!!
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After re-reading this...
Your sear crumbled after 20 rounds - RIA have a lifetime warranty. You stated that you replaced some of the controls AND THEN nothing but malf after malf? I don't know you, but the way you stated this, perhaps a smith would have been better off doing the upgrades? RIA does in fact have a lifetime warranty, and a crumbled sear would fall into that catagory. However, if you replace parts on their firearms and have a failure, you are SOL.
My point of failure was the extractor on mine. I replaced it with a Wilson and had to file about 1/16" off the back end of the extractor (to make it flush) and then I hava had NO malfs whatsoever.
Firearms are a lot like cars and computers. buy a ford, buy a chevy, buy a mercedes, buy a dell, build your own, buy an apple, buy a kimber, buy a glock, buy a sig...everyone has an opinion. Just like cars and computers these items are man made, and made of metal, there will be failures from time to time ; some minor, some major, some non-exiostant, some only in peoples minds...
That being said, I own one, had to tweak it a lil, and really like shooting mine. Perhaps the originator of this post can locate a board member near him in his HTF that owns one and wouldn't mind letting him get a little trigger time on it to see for himself. People will always be glad to flap their gums and tell you that all RIA's are crap, all glocks KB, when actually the percentage of those occurances are probably fairly low in number, but because it happened to you, or someone you know who knows a guy who had it happen to his cousin....we have to hop up on a soap box and scream what crap they are. The proof is in the pudding, try one and see how it is for you.
Yup...I drive a ford truck, shoot both my glock and my ria, and my ar lower is made by Oly...wow I must have a death wish or something....
ETA - the rest of my AR is built from parts from M&A parts and a few parts from YHM. How could I have survived this long without personal injury....maybe I should melt it down run out and buy a bushmaster or a colt......NAH.....