In any case, dang difficult/expensive to find ammo! If you're planning to protect your drug dealing with a collectible, Lugers or Mauser C96s or the WWI-surplus 1911s work best.
"Also Bertomeu had been afraid of her ex-husband and along with another member of her group had been involved in a home invasion where a bracelet was stolen and used to buy a 1911 Styer pistol."
I have a feeling there weren’t any “WW1 surplus” 1911s per se; it’s been said that as many as 50% of the pistols issued to the American Expeditionary Force were “lost in action”, so I suspect a lot of the M1911s (as opposed to the WW2 M1911A1s) out there came home in doughboys’ duffle bags. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that....) ;-)
That said, I remember reading that, among collectors of old muzzleloaders, the first rule is “assume it’s loaded”, and run a rod and gimlet down the bore to remove the charge.