There's no doubt the guns are finely made, American made, and I'd be glad to won one. I just draw the line at calling them 'originals', both because I think it is inaccurate and a slam on the people who did make the originals. If you read TPS you come to understand the people of Meriden, and later Ilion, had tremendous pride in their work and I believe that if they were alive today they'd look at the CSMC guns with a very long eye.

I guess 'to each his own'!