Originally Posted by Glenn R. McMannly

Chinese junk!

It is amazing that during the time these were readily available and cheap, these were sneered at by many as inferior chicom garbage guns. Same for many other Norinco/Chinese imports.

Not so.

Now decades late these command extreme collectors prices ($$$) and are thought of as some of the highest quality imports ever made.

I feel the Turkish 1911s are treated the same way these days. Many looks at them and think there’s no way they can be any good and are made by a Muslim country so must be bad. But I think in a few years they’re going to go up in value.