Many companies manufactured the M1911 for the U.S. The new firearm was called the Colt M1911A1. After World War I, the military modified the M1911 design to optimize it for combat, adding a slightly larger ejection port, shortening the trigger, extending the grip safety tang to help prevent 'slide bite', and adding an arched mainspring housing to allow the gun to better fit in the user's hand. During initial testing in the military trials, the M1911 fired 1,000 rounds flawlessly, becoming the first self-loading pistol to pass with a 100% grade. The end result was the M1911.īrowning sold the pistol to Colt, the first major company that would market the handgun. Browning had combined traits of his former pistols and built a prototype around the recently-developed. 45 caliber pistol was adopted into the U.S. Designed by John Moses Browning in 1910 with patent dates going as far back as 1897, the. The 1911 pistol is considered by many gun collectors and veterans to be the greatest self-loading pistol ever made and the grandfather of the modern handgun, which despite its age is still used alongside modern pistols today. Various capacities for clone copies.įire Modes: Semi-automatic (single action)
45 GAPĬapacity: 7+1 (original), 8, 9, 10, 15,(all single stack magazines for original M1911A1) 30-round drum. Various additional calibers in slide conversion units and clone copies including.
