If it was made today, who's to say it wouldn't be built with a polymer frame, high capacity magazine, rails, and a DAO/Double-Single trigger? Maybe Para-Ordnance conveys what the 1911 would have been had it been made in this day and age...
We have to keep in mind the 1911 was built when automatics in general were pretty new, today many guns have features that some prefer over the 1911, but we still love it today because it is the basis of all major handgun designs, and has proven capable for almost 100 years, still capable of outperfoming the competition in many roles.
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