Spats McGee
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You are, of course, correct. A carry gun needs to be put through its paces, regardless of age, design or manufacturer. When I wrote about an the individual firearm being in good shape, well, some manufacturers are obviously better than others.Sarge said:I'll only add one thing to that. The individual specimen needs to be proven as well. There is hardly a more proven design than the 1911, but everybody and his drunk uncle are making them and plenty of individual specimen aren't fit to take to a butterfly uprising. You have got to prove the gun because trusting to 'design' puts you at the mercy of marketers.Spats McGee said:Guns that function well, and do so over many years, become "old school." Guns that do not function well, go out of production and become "outdated." As long as the design is proven, and the individual firearm is in good shape, it ought to be OK as a carry piece.
Not to mention the possibility of kitchen table "custom" work . . . well, if some local fiend has rebuilt the pistol with his own three hands, I wouldn't consider that to be "in good shape." Sorry that that wasn't more clear.