Off azimuth but background info. At the time all the crying and moaning about Poly/Norinco M1A clones, the same emotionalism drumbeat of Norinco 1911a1 was going on full throttle. It did not take but a few months for enough of those 1911's to be bought and used before it was acknowledged they were made extremely well , many using them of IPSC and other custom competition pistols. They were made of Milled steel parts throughout just like in the 1930's at Colt.

In my life time, I've noticed Americans jump negatively on anything not Made In USA. I was one of those right up until I encountered my first AK47 and my Made In USA bubble exploded. Finding out the Chinese made AK47 was not a POS was disturbing reality for my brain housing group which along with my component other parts was located in South Viet Nam. also...their ammo seemed to work too well as well.