All things aside this is a very nice looking semi-auto pistol.
It is a shame the the looney left controls CA. My poor friend Tom is caught in the dilemma, he wants a really nice gun, but the state of CA tells him it is an assault weapon, and he cannot own one. (He is a Marine (retired) and a retired LEO. Is this not insane?)
Given how temperamental 3” 1911’s tend to be the state is unwittingly doing him a favor. Get an Officer if you have to have small.
He should just call up his pals.
Eff CA!
Too short, not enough capacity and I don’t wanna take out a second mortgage on the house to buy one.
CC
FYI, if you have a direct blood relation up or down (parent or child) living in a free state there is a way to get off roster guns by an "intrafamial transfer" that is 100% legal but most FFLs are not clear on the procedure and paperwork and too afraid of DoJ to attempt it but you can find one who will if you ask around.
Now for all of you who say it's just California and you should leave. There's a lot of good people stuck here for one reason or another. Four and a half million of us voted for Trump. You could describe California as Los Angeles and San Francisco with Texas in between. Half of the people in California were born somewhere else, including such luminaries as Nancy Pelosi. So the argument can be made that we helped a lot of states stay red by taking all their progressive riffraff in here. Texas especially owes us a debt of gratitude for taking Willie Brown off their hands.
On the serious side though, you should support the 2A fight here because gun controllers love California. They have a super majority in both the state senate and assembly and rubber stamp courts up through the Ninth Circuit. So they try out all their harebrained schemes here first. They refine them and learn what they can away with and get precedent setting court decisions here and then roll them out elsewhere. Just ask the folks in NY, CT, MA, CO, HI and elsewhere. All the crap laws they're suffering with started life in CA and perhaps could have been stopped with enough support here.
My Colt Lightweight Commander is small enough to conceal and big enough to get needed fps out of the .45 acp round. I love it and my full sized Colt XSE.