Our clarifications from NROI have all said that as long as it matches the factory part, you can use it. This matches the factory part.
Well, I stand corrected then.
That sure makes an RO's job hard though, doesn't it?
That ruling was under John, I have a message in to Troy to verify that he will rule the same way. There is no real way for a RO to know who made the part if they are identical, and that was the logic used in the past. The XD 45 part is metal, so we really are just offering a metal part because SA won't sell them.