I think Taurus is in the same boat as Charter Arms, in the early days they put out some real garbage, things improved and got pretty decent, occasionally they seem to dip back towards garbage but generally decent now days.
I don't have experience with Taurus, apparently stuck with the stigma, but did have a Charter Arms 44 Bulldog and it was a great gun. In fact I was browsing for another one a couple days ago.
Neither will probably ever full recover from the garbage stigma but there's a lot of folks out there that seem to like em and get along fine.
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