Lorcin L380

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Quavodus

Discussion Starter · May 22, 2020

I owned a L 380 once, and it had to be the cheapest made piece of shit I've ever owned. The barrel was welded to the frame. A lot of the parts were cast out of some kind of cheap crap and some parts were plastic.

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adam01364

· #2 · May 22, 2020

-The safety lever was plastic on the L32 and L380 models.
-Barrels were pinned, but the location of that pin was inconsistent on the frame. (see pic below)
-Slides and frames were made of Zamak, same as Hi-Points. (The quality of said Zamak? Questionable.) Lorcin slides broke so regularly that I only shot mine angled away from my face; but I personally never had one break on me.
-Rifling on Lorcin .380 barrels was so poor that sometimes you'd swear it was a smooth bore. (I'm not kidding.) Honestly, if it didn't keyhole, something was wrong.

When Cobra took over the tooling, they made a much more robust slide and fixed the rifling issue. Other than that, the Cobra FS380 is the same gun as the Lorcin L380.

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adam01364

· #4 · May 24, 2020

When I started buying SNS pistols, I promised myself I'd never buy a Lorcin.
Turns out I was only fooling myself.

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adam01364

· #9 · Jun 8, 2020

Smart. Shoot it, find out it sucks, and move away.

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adam01364

· #16 · Jun 17, 2020

But are they selling? Or is that the asking price... big difference. Lorcin mags are as crappy as the guns they go into. Of course that never stopped me from buying one, but I've got an incurable case of Anygunitus.

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adam01364

· #21 · Dec 5, 2020

I swore I'd never buy a Lorcin, and then one came my way for cheap money and I bought it. Caught a case of Lorcinitus just from touching it, and now I find I've owned 'em all. Like magnut said, I've made them work and I've learned their weak points along the way. I'd chose a Cobra FS380 over a Lorcin L380 every time, the Cobra's slide is a tad more robust and rifling actually exists in the barrel.

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adam01364

· #24 · Jan 21, 2022

Dagwood said:
It turns out it's missing something. It's in pieces in a baggie in my gun safe. Someday maybe I'll try to fix it.

Lay out all the parts and take a pic, I can prolly tell you what's missing. The L9 has a weird take down button that's reminiscent of how Hi-Points are disassembled.

Somebody will fall in love with that Lorcin 380 and end up heartbroken; even when clean as a whistle they're $50 tops IMO. But they are purdy.

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