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I have the micro on mine. Great lights!

Just got a notification from MGW that they have aluminum trigger guards in, just grabbed one for $140

The finish issue is really just a symptom of the degradation of their quality. On of these is 10 years old, has almost 10,000 rounds of all sorts of ammo through it and still goes bang every freaking time having only been cleaned maybe 3 times, machining still looks precise and hand fitted on the inside, one of these is a shoddy POS with a plastic trigger guard and crappy uneven machining on the internals and got to me with all sorts of bizzare marring and finish wear on the inside and has fail-to-feed and fail-to-eject no matter what i do to it. Fuck this company. I'll still collect older guns but the people here in the US and over in Italy have gone to shit and they push guns off movies like john wick rather than their military reputation. I mean even just compare the engraving its disgusting how obvious the difference in effort is. Pathetic and shameful.

CeraCoat is good, but not NP3 good. It is however fine in most instances. My pocket CCW pistol has been CeraCoat'd twice now. It gets a lot of sweat and salts on it during the hot summer months. I would bet big money that if I would have had it NP3, that it would outlast me.

I've found the metal trigger guards have a nicer, snappier safety button feel. The plastic version saves like 2 seconds on assembly because there is a removable washer for the carrier plunger. Very trivial differences for me so I would be okay with either.

I personally do no buy the "new anodize" process for the USMC. Hard anodizing is a MIL-A-8625, type III, class 2, finish which has been used on M16 receivers for many years. This is a problem with the dye process and/or the anodizing not being as thick as necessary to dye properly, or the post dye sealing process. They don't want to be having to redo a bunch of receivers so they make up some story. They may have changed from type I or II to type III hard anodizing and probably have not got the process dialed in properly to produce the jet black finish. Also if they were doing a new process for the USMC then they most likely would not be doing it for all the receivers, only the USMC contract receivers. Someone should find out exactly what the USMC is specifying for the new finish.

The OEM trigger guard underwent testing with Aberdeen and did fine. That is why I went with it. It's proven, and was a contract item.

Lol, wow. That be fast. I bet they just found one somewhere while moving stock or something.

That's sharp, didn't know they had that! Smokin' on that H20

FYI, they are sold out.

'Naked' Rein full size compliments the cerakote titanium well.

Hello Kitty for the win!

If you're at the point of forcing reassembly, STOP. Something up to that point hasn't been done right. Trying to force everything back together may probably cause further problems and even damage. A couple of other questions/issues already mentioned. More info needed.