After 30 years, the Marines are returning to the Colt .45 pistol

Stars and Stripes ^ | August 18, 2012 | By MATTHEW STURDEVANT

[Jet Jaguar]

[gundog]

Yankee Fist BUMP

[TheRhinelander]

A most wide choice.

[Erik Latranyi]

John Browning’s birthday should be a national holiday!

[ConorMacNessa]

Outstanding!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[SailormanCGA72]

The only thing that could make it better would be if it was DA/SA instead of SAO.

[Spktyr]

What, so the trigger position would change between the first round and subsequent ones?

DA/SA sucks.

[Always A Marine]

Hallelujah! It was a dark day when I turned my last M1911 into the armory for the final time and the armored handed me that lousy Beretta. I Never really got over it. Great to see the Corps returned to what works best!

Good article, with excellent history of the the "new" pistol's M1911 roots. One criticism for the author: it was the Spanish-American War, not the "Philippine-American War."

[MCF]

As much as I like the 1911, it probably been better to go with a Glock in 45 ACP or 10mm.

[Carriage Hill]

“Colt gives a pair of customized guns to each standing president, though Bill Clinton was the only one not to accept the offer, Hinkley said.”

The lying, treasonous, POS Kenyan-In-Chief should have gotten 2 plastic squirtguns.

Glad to see Colt coming back as supplier.

[Joe 6-pack]

[mylife]

Love my Bull Barrel Commander.

[yarddog]

I have always heard it called the Philippines Insurrection.

It was not the Spanish American war tho it did evolve from our getting the Philippines in that war.

[Carl Vehse]

Stars and Stripes didn’t say, so I’ll ask: Who was the person who approved the switch to the 9mm back in 1985?

[elcid1970]

Uh, youse knows of course dat da most wonderful pistol ever made ‘cuz it’s made by da cousins rite here in New Joisey is da Beretta. Hey, youse gotta problem wid’ da 9mm??

What dese Marines are doin’, well, Vito & Dominic & da boys ain’t gonna be happy about this. Just thought youse’d like to know.....

[RetiredArmy]

I always liked the 45 better than the pop gun 9mm. The Army should not have dropped the 45 either.

[mylife]

Clintoon is a Moron.

[Riley]

OH HELL YES.

[gundog]

People that bitch about “the Mormonizing of America” would do well to recognize JMB’s contributions to the winning of the 20th century’s wars.

[JerseyanExile]

Yeah, there are more modern handguns out there in .45. But I guess that after the disaster that was the Joint Combat Pistol program, they decided it would be easier to just buy more stocks of something that was already in service.