Oh, me oh my. Not this again...
*sigh*
I'm not about to waste time arguing with a man whose mind is made up, nor with anyone who listens to his drivel and spreads his gospel. He takes one or two examples and bases his theories on those instead of the vast majority that run just fine.
If all 1911s were unreliable junk, the pistol would have gone the way of the Chauchaut decades ago, and with the ones that do give a problem, most of the time it's a matter of a few simple adjustments to set right.
The vast majority of the time, it's the magazine. Wish I had a dollar for every Jammin' Jenny I've "fixed" by handing the owner a few of my magazines and telling him to try again. With the others, it's usually the extractor... a matter of a 15-minute tweak. I just recently broke a "junk" Springfield of its jamming habit with a minor extractor adjustment while sitting at my kitchen table with my attention divided between answering the owner's questions and drinking coffee while providing the background stories on the dozen dogs that were milling around vying for attention.
A small percentage actually require major surgery to correct the problems.
The biggest problem is with "Dremel Dan" doin' a Super-Duper Double Throwdown ramp'n'throat job on what was once either a perfectly functioning pistol, or one suffering from an improper magazine or in need of a light extractor tweak...and then pronouncing it as "Worthless Junk" when his efforts bear rotten fruit.
Unsafe for 95% if the users to carry.
It might be time to note that the new term added to our vocabulary is "Glock Leg" and not "1911 Leg."
Incidentally, I've seen Glocks and Sigs choke, too.
Needs tools to disassemble.
Spoken like a man who hasn't seen one stripped to bare frame and slide without tools in about 60 seconds.
On this one, I can find at least a few reasons to agree, but the fault lies with the aftermarket and the belief that...just because you hang a cool moniker on a magazine and charge a big price for it...it's an improvement over the original. So many people have been trying for so long to outsmart John Browning, they really believe they have.