Quote Originally Posted by Dingo View Post
Agreed - not incapable of failure. Just not an entire gunsmithing collective built around making it reliable. :-)
My perception of the 1911 gunsmithing collective was that it was built around accurizing, not making the platform reliable. The 1911 has been a highly reliable platform over the 100 years since it debuted; it's just that a lot of the war surplus were understandably loose. Glocks are great pistols but they're not the end-all-be-all.