And Springfield put their name on that?
They have a checkered history, yes. At the time this P9 was produced, they were more of an import house for foreign made firearms that happened to make M1A clones. Some of what they imported/made under license/had made under contract was good (Brazilian FALs, what became the Springfield XD, the basis of their 1911s) and some of it... wasn’t.
Still better than the embarrassment that was post-Carter-era Colt, though.