What's even better is that Ruger has solved the RHR (Ridiculously Hard Reassembly) problem in the Mk IVs. Push a button, and the top half of the pistol comes off. Pull the bolt out of the back of the slide, and you're ready to clean. Put bolt back in, pop top half back on, and you're done.
Never understood the "hard to take apart" thing on the Ruger auto's. I bought my first one at a Trade Day event. I took it home had it apart and cleaned in just a bit and then reassembled. All without an owners manual and way before Al Gore invented the internet. Computers were way in the future for me.
I have had many Ruger autos since that first one and thats what I would look for if I were in the market for a new semi-auto myself. But the SW Victory has been studied more than once by me also. That would be a contender too.