[supercat]

I said, "There are three more rounds in the weapon....you gonna shoot em?" She smiled, looked at her target, and then across the group of young men all standing around, and she said, "Nope! I'm done!"

Shouldn't the weapon be cleared before a person walks up to the target? Unless the magazine was removed, locking the slide back doesn't seem sufficient; pistols have been known to slam-fire.

[hiredhand]

Shouldn't the weapon be cleared before a person walks up to the target? Unless the magazine was removed, locking the slide back doesn't seem sufficient; pistols have been known to slam-fire.

Well.... :-) She didn't lock the slide back. She flipped the slide lock safety upwards, and (as I remember) without pointing it in an unsafe direction, handed it over to me.

If the 1911 slam fires, the weapon has a MAJOR problem and probably shouldn't be in active use anyway.

I'm pretty sure after she said she didn't want to shoot it anymore, I holstered it, and there it stayed. :-)