My EMF story for what it's worth, and just to keep in mind I'm typically the magnet for certain (lemon type) issues with new guns.
About 6 months back I had my lgs find me a new EMF Californian .45 LC 5-1/2", which he found at his typical distributor. A week later or so it came in, and I fondled it a bit and while the hammer/trigger action was a little gritty I wasn't overly concerned I couldn't do whatever if need be. So after getting it home and really working it (just before it's good cleaning I always do) the hammer and trigger locked up... okay... somehow I freed them up and then the cylinder stopped rotating... okay... Now about this time I'm saying to myself, with my luck this was of course bound to happen. So I didn't panic and just decided the first cleaning was going to be pretty much a total tear down to see what's up with my new EMF revolver.
So after tearing it down, and being far from any expert I found that 1.) nearly every screw was loose meaning not even really snug. 2.) while the outside finish was really near perfect bluing and case hardening, etc., the inside action trigger spring, upper trigger area, lower hammer cam, strut, all inside was the most rusty crusted mess I'd ever seen in my whole like of many hundreds of new and used pistols I've dealt with. It was like rusty oily sand. 3.) There is a spring and ball detent that goes in a tiny hole in the back of the frame to keep pressure on the hand/pawl to index/rotate the cylinder properly that was missing. while looking for it moving the frame around it fell out of the left screw hole for the grip frame!!! Yep, some bozo put it in the wrong hole, omg!! But at least it was included. That concludes my bad luck with my new EMF.
On the really good side, all the grungy rust cleaned up/off real nice although the flat spring lost it's original finish (but no biggie when properly lubed) and the action has the nice 4 clicks, smooth as silk, excellent timing, with a smooth light trigger pull. It's seriously really nice after super cleaning and reassembling it properly. Not sure what happened to the poor thing before I got it, but all in all I really like it. I used it for my "Man With No Name" Eastwood Snake Grips mod.
I'm sure you'd have no issues like I had, as I got the bad one out of the way, but I thought I'd share my story since you asked.