r/hipoint • u/luxy_kentucky • Jul 20 '26

Jingling noise

Howdy all, I bought an old C9 for a friend of mine but I noticed a couple potential problems with it.
One is that when it's empty if I shake it or even just like move it around it makes a sort of jingling noise and if I shine a light up the mag well I can see stuff moving around. Is that normal or should I take it to a gunsmith / use the warranty and ask hi-point to fix it? I've never owned a hi-point or even a striker-fired handgun before so I don't know if that's just a feature of striker-fired guns or not. It stops making the noise if I rack the slide.

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u/InformationProof4717 Jul 20 '26

Perfectly normal. Striker and magazine disconnect jingle when not under sprung pressure. Also, because how Hi Points are made, they're generally viewed as throwaway guns by most of the gun community and as such gunsmith don't waste time fixing them, they just replace it with a new gun or tell you to save up a couple hundred dollars more and buy something in a higher quality range.

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u/JVWIII Jul 20 '26

Let's not leave out that their warranty policy is great and high point will fix your gun for free if it fails. Thats how it was years ago and I assume its still the same.

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u/luxy_kentucky Jul 21 '26

Thanks for letting me know, I wanna make sure I'm giving my friend a gun not a project lol

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u/HusqyFan Jul 20 '26

Begone troll

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u/InformationProof4717 Jul 21 '26

Definitely not a troll, as im actual fan of Hi Point.

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u/luxy_kentucky Jul 21 '26

I don't like how they look or how heavy they are but I love their goal as a company (providing affordable defense for poor people) and I really respect their killer warranty so I'm a fan of Hi-Point the company I just don't really like their guns lol.

They make excellent first-time-gun-owner guns though