>>64121831
Worse than both at their worst.
Kel-Tec does cheap plastic frames held together by hex-head screws, which isn't fantastic, but loctite those things and they hold up alright.
Hi-Point uses Zamac (zinc alloy) for their slides, which makes for a chunky and bulky pistol, but it holds up and it allows for a cheap retail price.
These Ring Of Fire pistols use slides which are also made of Zamac, but unlike Hi-Point, they don't embed steel plates in the castings to make sure that the pistols will hold up decently, which is why shit like Lorcin, Jennings, Raven Arms, Jimeneze, etc, etc, have all kinds of fragility problems.
The old Raven Arms pistols are also outright unsafe in that that engaging the safety can make them fire, which there were a few fatalities and lawsuits over.
You don't get that with a Hi-Point nor the Kel-Tec, those things hold up and they don't shoot when they aren't supposed to.
>>64121863
I recall hearing Intratec went out of their way to avoid having to do work on the CAT pistol's barrel, so that they are only technically legally rifled, but don't do shit for actually stabilizing bullets, just to keep production price down.
That could be hearsay though, I don't know them closely.
