There are those who will say that they are crap, but my experience, and that of many others, is that they are well functioning and fairly well built. Is it going to have the craftsmanship of a Les Baer or STI; of course not. But a simple look shows many people who have never had a single issue with theirs, and in the few instances that I've read of something that did go wrong, it was quickly resolved.

The Cimarron line of 1911s are also by Armscor, and the finish on their high luster blued model is very nice.