This is not pot metal. All steel. They fixed all their issues from "back in the day". As it was explained to me
at the price, it's hard to beat the value. I am not a gun snob so I don't put one gun over than another... in most cases. IMHO if it goes bang when you pull the trigger, it's a gun. You don't need to spend 1K on a gun to go "peew, peew"