Owned both a Browning Hi-Power and numerous 1911s........
Current carry is a .45 but no longer a Browning design.....I think Browning would be delighted to see the advances in materials and machining available today...
Yeah, maybe - or maybe he'd be disgusted with the plastics, the cast parts and the roll pins.
From a reply at the site:
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The Marines were the last of the U.S. military services to receive the much ballyhooed Beretta 9mm pistols in the early 1990’s. Marine infantry battalions got them first and turned in their Browning M1911 45 caliber pistols.
Within the first year my repair team at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow had received 7000 Beretttas back for repair of broken upper slides.
These Berettas were poorly manufactured by the factory in South America. The infantry battalions got the reliable Browning M1911’s back until Beretta delivered functional 9mm pistols from their European factory.
Some of the Brownings we reissued were over 50 years old. They were indestructible.