There used to be an urban legend that they were made on old Colt or USGI machinery, but that is not true.
Frames are cast, slides are extruded from barstock. The slides were cast up until 2006 or so. There is talk that they are moving to barstock frames. Small parts are mostly MIM. The last ones I saw now have plastic instead of metal mainspring housings.
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