I wanted to get my story out there for people researching Talon T200 9mm's. I experienced catastrophic failure of the slide when I fired the 40th round through this handgun. Let me lay out the story for everyone reading. I experienced something simliar to the original poster on this forum but here is my story. On October 28th 2008 I borrowed my neighbors handgun, a Talon T200, with the intentions of using it for a CCW class being held that weekend. I decided that I would fire a few rounds through it to get a better feel for it that evening. A month before my neighbor and I had went out into the woods and fired about 30 rounds through it. My neighbor had owned the handgun for a couple of years but had never fired it till we took it out into the woods. I went to my local conservation league where there is a shooting range and loaded five rounds into the clip, I hung the targets and stepped back about 30 feet from the target. I fired the first five rounds with no incident and reloaded five more rounds into the clip. I fired four more rounds without incident, but on the final 10th round that day I was stunned!!!! It took me a second or two to realize what had happened. The slide on top of the gun had blown into two pieces and the largest piece flew back and hit me in the mouth. The broken slide tore my upper lip nearly into two pieces, knocked out one of my teeth, knocked another backwards and it was hanging. I was bleeding all over the place. I quickly grabbed my things and placed a glove over my mouth while I headed to the car. I was light headed and in shock. There was no one around and I ended up having to drive myself to the hospital. The night had just begun for me. My local hospital was unable to treat my facial trauma and they took my by ambulance to a larger city hospital. An E.N.T. specialist performed the sutures and did an amazing job reconstructing my upper lip. I had a horrible emergency room dental experience!!!! The night ended up being full of a lot of pain and irritation. I have had a root canal and crown put onto the tooth that was knocked out at the gum line. I have one more tooth that needs a root canal and a crown placed on it. The bills that I have seen so far, and they are not all in have already topped $6000. I have not recieved the bill for the 90 mile ambulance ride yet but Im sure that will be another $6000 - $8000, Thank god for insurance. I am currently around $1000 out of pocket. I am just trying to get the word out about this handgun. If you own a Talon T200 or a variation of it then get rid of it. The doctors told me that I am lucky to be alive! If the broken slide had hit me a few inches higher it would have killed me! If anyone has any information on the company that now owns this handgun please email me that information. If you have had a similar experience, it only takes three people to start a class action law suit against someone. Being an engineer I am angry that a company would put a product out there without doing the correct amount of calculations and destructive testing to their product. I feel the manufacturer should be held liable in this case and I am looking for information to pursue this issue!If you want to see a picture of want the gun looked like after the incident then just check the pics from the original poster, they are identical. Anyone wishing to contact please feel free to contact me at [email protected] Just wanted to put it out there that the ammunition I was shooting was NOT HAND LOADED. The ammunition was factory loaded green dot ammunition approved for this handgunBefore accidentAccident DamagePhoto taken from original poster but modified for effect showing what caused my facial trauma