The RM380 is miles better than it has any right to be. I'm not even going to qualify that with "for the money". It'd be a fantastic pistol at twice the price.

The problem is that they released a bunch of terrible to average pistols ahead of it, so nobody believes Remington could make anything good.

Their latest attempts at handguns were just...inept. They bought Para and then didn't make an LDA. Instead they released another by-the-numbers 1911 into a crowded market.

PS--I'm not a huge fan of Ruger's 1911 either. The last one I dry-fired (just recently), had a horribly creepy, rough trigger pull. And a noticeably different trigger pull if you dry-fired, held the trigger back, hand-cycled, reset and dry-fired again. There was something seriously sloppy going on in there.

About the only potential bright spot is maybe their 10mm model, which I heard is pretty cheap. But I'm not too familiar with 10mm 1911 pricing.