Always an interesting topic.

Even arguably one of the "best" guns in the world, F. Rizzini-which is made with state-of-art Swiss CNC equipment-has a huge amount of hand work required before the in-the-white forend iron will adhere to the action bar without barrels. Granted, changes in technology are lessening the amount of hand-work needed every day. Still, I think hand-made is just that, no small amount of hand-hours applied before the final result. Now if you see the piece-paid workers at Beretta spending 30 seconds or less de-burring and testing a gun before throwing it back on the rack, you will see the definition of "not-made-by-hand".

Best,

C.