it seems like people have a hard time figuring out whether the French (or any other group, for that matter) are nice, or snobby, or cool, or smart, or wusses, or whatever... geez, from all the different opinions, if i didn't know better, i would think that they aren't all alike!
Ok but seriously, i had a Sig P220 for a while, and it was nothing but trouble - cases jammed in the ejection port, the extractor prevented the slide from cycling by catching on the rim of the cartridge, etc, etc. So i sold it and got an HK USP Tactical .45... best firearm i have ever handled, a few years and a few thousand rounds later and not a single malfunction of any kind, not to mention it is lovely and beautiful and satisfies the part of one that appreciates fine engineering, precise tolerances and carefully hand-machined interlocking pieces of metal. Not to knock Sig, i prolly just got a lemon, which i know is rare...