Mitchell Luger Sucker

[davidkachel]

Apparently that's me!
In the 70's I had a great "new" Luger, 6" barrel, beautifully blued, 9mm.
I don't remember who made it, but I bought it new and loved it.
Don't even remember why I sold it.
I've been wanting to replace it for quite a while and saw a Mitchell Luger (stainless) at a gun show a few months back and thought, "why not". I might like it better and at the least it could be a "place holder" until I found what I really wanted.
WHAT A MISTAKE!
This is the worst functioning firearm of any kind I have ever owned and I've owned some genuine lemons.
I now have $662 into it, including repairs, and what I thought was a bargain, ain't!
It jams, it stovepipes, it fails to feed at all. I could fill a page with every variety of ways in which it malfunctions. When I got it, it looked virtually new, possibly even unfired. But the guy who sold it to me obviously new what he was getting rid of.
I've talked with the guy who currently owns the company that produced them and he wants almost as much money just to ship it back to me as the guy who just worked on the feed ramp for me. (This was a good job. He fixed it so it is actually capable of feeding empty casings! But the other problems were not addressed and I am not at all sure I want to address them.)
I've noticed a couple of postings on this list mentioning hopes they will resume production. Based on my experience and some of the others I've read, Mitchell owners should be organizing a class action lawsuit for intentionally producing a defective product, rather than hoping they'll resume production. They ought to be ashamed to have produced a product like this. Hell, I've seen Jennings work better than this Mitchell Luger.

Now that I've let off a little steam...
1st question: Is this thing worth putting any more money into? ie, can it be turned into a reliable gun without another several hundred dollar investment?
2nd question: Does anyone have any suggestions on where, how, etc. I can get what I really wanted: 9mm, blued, 6" barrel, don't care a whit about historical/collector value, just want a beautiful and reliable shooter. I'm not a Luger collector, have no plans to be one, don't know anything about Lugers (how I got into this mess in the first place I suppose), just want a nice, like-new looking "representative" piece without having to rent out my wife. (OK, I'll consider that, but it'll have to be a REALLY nice one.)