Since this is my second Para, I would like to venture an OPINON. First one bought in 1995 P14-45 (made in Canada). A well known GM was shooting one and so was my friend who knew him and was an 'A' (uspsa) shooter at the time (now a GM). My friend who also was an amateur gunsmith. So he modified mine by dumping out all the fire control 'stuff' and replaced the trigger, sear, hammer, disconnector as well as the series '80' parts, also added the usual uspsa limited parts (magwell etc.) did a 'trigger' job (2/12-2/3/4 lbs.) with a nice clean break and it NEVER failed since (estimated round count 30k+) (i did on occasion). Just replaced the stock ejector/mainspring/extractor. Works perfect. Rather than refinish this oldie but goodie, I decided to buy a uspsa ready competition gun. A Para p14-45 Pro Custom ready to go except for a trigger job.WRONG. too many MIM parts, thumb safety broke right out of the box. But Para made good. Jamming of the mainspring under the disconnector caused the gun to jam on numerous occasions. (mainspring is a length only available from Para), I sent the gun back to para and they replaced the frame saying the cut for the mainspring was too low and that any 1911 mainspring would now work. Got the gun back and again replace the entire fire control system. Not quite the end, after about 5k rounds the barrel bushing cracked and jammed the gun. Finally after numerous trips to my gunsmith and 4 months of screwing around it now works PERFECT. Current round count approx. 10k+. P.S. still need mainsprings from Para, Ed Brown etc still too short.