Jack:
That is an interesting post.
No. 9, the Bryco .380, is correctly described by the author: "Even worse than a brass knuckle on a no-armed retarded man, these ill-fitted pieces of crap were stretching the truth when they were marketed as 'firearms'. Especially insipid as a 'weapon' in a small caliber."
The photo of that Bryco brought back a memory. Before my retirement, I represented a small private college with one of my responsibilities being to review and approve the legality of all expulsions of students and other potentially controversial personnel actions. One of the students, a "wannabe gangbanger" from California, had been caught by campus police with a Bryco .380 on his person. I approved his expulsion, of course, and turned him over to the local authorities. However, the purpose of this recitation is to note that the slide on that piece of excrement he was carrying was "welded" in place by rust. That was probably a good thing, since the "genius" in question had loaded the magazine with some corroded and mismatched rounds of .32 ACP ammunition.
I always wondered how that "genius" had managed to score high enough on the ACT to be admitted to the college.