I did not even dignify the 1911 thing with picking one up to look at it. There's pretty much a proven open source design. With the P3AT a big company, Ruger, patiently waited while a little tiny company planned, tested, innovated, failed, and then brilliantly succeeded. Ruger could afford to be so patient because they had no idea it could be done or there was a market. Nothing to patent that I see, plastic gun with tilt-barrel locking. The idea of getting the little guy to do all your legwork for you is abhorrent to me, just a pet peeve. On 1911s, I'm done. I've got a Sistema halfway finished in a tupperware, a S70 Colt, a Rem-Rand that needs to be re-built, and a modern Dan Wesson that is nice but doesn't trip my trigger due to its stainless flavor. I'm absolutely done buying new production guns that look like 1911s. I will either have the money to pay Les Baer, Ed Brown, and no others or I will build one myself with Caspian stuff. All the modern 1911s are mass production crap dreamed up by managers that probably don't know where the bullet comes out and just want to move units and make pretty graphs. That's why I didn't mention the 1911 thing, one off-topic can o worms per thread.
