Wife's a new shooter, just finished her ccw class, so I thought a fairly low recoil revolver for her. I saw Taurus .380 acp and .327 for sale. Never had a Taurus. I've had a few NEF/Charters and a Rossi and was happy with them despite them being inexpensive.
Junk. (Says the man who owns two of them.)
My first was a Model 94 in .22 LR. I bought it to use for the live fire segment when I teach NRA Basic Pistol classes. It
looks gorgeous, but beauty is only skin deep. The trigger pull out of the box was horrible. Gritty, ugly, and the DA pull was about 18 pounds. After polishing everything inside and installing a Wolff spring kit, I got the trigger down from "horrible" to just plain "bad" and decided to quit. FWIW, a cheap Armscor M200 had a far better trigger out of the box than the Taurus has after being worked on.
My other is a Model 327, in (naturally) .327 Federal Magnum. It's a snubby that I bought out of curiosity when CDNN was selling them off cheap. Trigger was just as bad as the Model 94 (hardly a surprise, since it's the same frame), but the 327 also had a nasty habit of either not firing at all in DA mode, or firing one shot and then either locking up ... or not locking the cylinder at all. It took awhile to figure out that both the bolt and the bolt slot in the receiver were machined so crudely that the bolt was either hanging up when extended, or tipping sideways and not extending at all. VERY unsafe.
And it was impossible to get a file into the slot to clean it up because other parts of the receiver blocked it. I finally cheated and thinned the tip of the bolt enough to ensure that it couldn't get stuck and not extend. The cylinder now doesn't lock up solid, but the rotational play is slight enough that it's safe to fire. I'll probably never fire .327 Magnum through it, anyway -- the appeal was that the same gun will also fire three other, less powerful rounds.
Don't buy a Taurus.