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Colt Brings Back the 1903 General Officer’s ModelColt General Officer's Model, Colt Model 1903, John Moses Browning![]() 20 Aug 2012
Marine Corps Goes Back to the Model 1911.45, Colt, Colt .45, John Moses Browning, MARSOC, Model 1911, USMC![]()
30 years after the US Armed Forces went to a 9mm Parabellum Beretta, the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) has re-adopted John Moses Browning’s original single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated Model 1911 pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge as its issue sidearm, to be produced (in what amounts to a typically-customized contemporary version) by the original manufacturer: Colt Manufacturing LLC of Hartford, Connecticut. Stars and Stripes story Why? As “Col. Colt” puts it on the 1911 Forum:
—————————– Steve the skeptic discusses the politics behind the choice:
29 Jan 2006
Good Ballistic News.45 ACP, Guns, John Moses Browning, War on Terror![]()
One of the US military’s major historic mistakes is being rectified. Strategy Page reports that the Department of Defense has announced that the United States is going back to the hallowed .45 ACP cartridge as the chambering for US issue sidearms.
The US military switched from a .38 issue cartridge to the .45 with the adoption of John Moses Browning’s renowned Model 1911, as the result of unhappy experiences with the lack of stopping power of the smaller round against earlier Islamic opponents: the Moro pirates of the Philippine Insurrection. .45 ACP cartridge history Your are browsing
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