No, you carry “cocked and locked”. Hammer back, safety on. Condition one, I believe is what the experts call it. Practice that way and safety “off” becomes the last bit of “draw” as you look for the front sight. No time wasted, perfectly safe. Nothing against Glocks, I had one, gave it to the SIL. Nice gun. Never felt the safety issue was a feature one way or the other. I never got around to reloading 9mm so I never shot it a whole bunch.
The reason one chooses 1911 is .45 ACP. Consider, 45 Colt was what was around before that. 220 gr. lead bullet with 60 gr of Black Powder. I have a Ruger Old Army that shoots that. It is a frgging canon.
.45 ACP was invented to duplicate that round with “new” smokeless powder. Sure, it isn’t .357 or .41 mag but it is right up there.
Read Ayoob’s Incident in Miami. Three feebs died because ONE BULLET fired was 9 mm.
Three agents died in Miami because they were poor shots over 115 rounds fired and only a few hit there target.
The agents tactics were horrible, they were mentally unprepared to take on two known killers.
When going up against two well known robbers would had proven themselves to be every violent.
One does not fail to wear your armor one does not leave your rifles and sub-guns back at the station.
The main reason the FBI agents were shot up and killed is they suffered from a huge case of we are the FBI.
“Read Ayoob’s Incident in Miami. “
The Ass lied in his write up about that story. That’s well known. He’s the same idiot that claimed no one should use handloaded ammunition because lawyers would make it appear that you were a crazed killer with intent to kill someone, although only two court cases have ever raised the idea without success.
Massad,
Any reason to Doubt the Man?