Posted on 08/20/2012 9:43:40 AM PDT by Daffynition
WEST HARTFORD — — The newest Colt .45-caliber pistol is touted for its durability and design.
It is tested to make sure it can be dropped in water, covered in mud, immersed in sand or ice or left in a dust storm — and still be able to get off a round when you pull the trigger.
"Virtually, it's indestructible," said Casimir Pawlowski, who works in international sales and technical sevices for Colt Defense LLC. "You can drive over these things with a Humvee and they're still gonna work. It's like a brick that shoots bullets."
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.courant.com ...
yes, does both.
Check out he CZ75 full auto. It carries a spare mag in front of the trigger guard that doubles as grip to keep the barrel down in full auto.
The place in the frame where the slide stop/takedown lever passes through the frame is a bit of a weak spot, especially on alloy frames. That is right next to that sharp step.
Looks like a great deal for both buyer and seller.
So you are not so much “pulling the trigger” as you are: DROPPING THE HAMMER!
Yep, that's just what the sidearms were for tankers back then. I ran the arms room for my company and they were all that worn.
The photo I saw had the 1913 rail section peeling back from the front of the frame almost the entire length of the rail groove.
I doubt if Obama had anything to do with the return of the Colt .45.
Well the news lists everything as a AK-47 or a Glock or some other buzz word but that does not make it true. Just because an old ad says it does not make it a automatic pistol, it is a semi-automatic. By the way do you own one? If you do own one, have you registered it and paid your tax as would be required if it was an automatic.
I’ve fired it and it is insanely fast and uncontrollable as hell.
You need the Glock stock to handle it decently.
Using the stock on a semi-automatic is illegal, of course.
When I left AD and entered the Reserves, I took control of a unit that had MINT M1911 Colts and High Standard .22 target pistols. MINT.
One of my tasks was to bring them to the depot for destruction and certify that the destruction was complete. Ugh.
It was one of the more unsavory jobs I had as a Company Commander.
These new versions of the MEUSOC M45 pistol cure the sight problem with Novack high visibility sights; a trigger job for a light and crisp trigger pull; a new trigger that is longer, fits, and minimizes over travel. The other things are fixed by training -- assuring the trainees that the gun will NOT break their wrist and recoil is manageable. Reassuring the trainee that the muzzle blast will not kill them. Imparting confidence in the trainee that they are the master of the pistol and not the opposite way around.
There's the money quote of the whole article. =)
I’m waiting on a phone call from a gun mag that I’d called earlier. At some point rifle nomenclature has become more common when referring to pistols. Semi-auto pistols were always referred to as automatic when I was growing up. I can readily remember that my father’s gun magazines in the 1970’s and 1980’s referred to fully automatic pistols as machine pistols, while calling semi-autos, automatics. Hopefully this person will be able to tell me when. As central_va pointed out, referring to shotguns as semi-auto is also fairly recent. They used to be referred to and marketed as automatic shotguns.
I get everything that you’re saying, but you’re just taking it for granted that this was always the case. I can assure you that it was not. I can remember when semi-auto only applied to rifles. Pistols were revolvers or automatics, with machine pistols like the Mac 10 existing strictly in the military world. Shotguns were either breakable, pump or automatic. I don’t think fully automatic shotguns like the USA12 or AA12 even existed.
I have trained Army MPs (females) who’s hands were so small they could barely get their fingers around the grip of a standard 1911. As range safety officer I had to order one female to use the .38 to qualify because she could not maintain control. At first we thought she just did not want to qualify. When we had her demonstrate her grip (thinking that we could correct the problem) her finger tips were on the front of the grip, under the trigger guard.
Granted she looked like 4 foot 11 inches to me (barely met the requirements) and only the Lord knows why she chose to be an MP ... but that was the case. One of those ... perhaps you should consider changing MOS moments.
That is normal terminology. It’s so normal, odds are you’re not going to find a “definitive source for nomenclature” stating it. Yes, it’s confusing to newbies.
The “full auto” you’re thinking of is rare, and even within that category applies almost exclusively to rifles. The Glock 18 and Atchisson AA-12 are about the only modern non-rifle full-auto arms short of extremely obscure/rare/expensive instances. The pedantic may find exceptions (”there are 3 transferable G18s in the USA! never mind their quarter-million-dollar price tags!”) but most sane people don’t go there, as no new “true automatics” have been available since 1986.
For general discussion, “automatic” means “semi-auto”. And a full-auto normal-sized .45 would be just silly.
I read where one SEAL team shot more ammo than the entire U.S. Marine Corps, still, I am partial to my Force Recon(now MARSOC) Marines. :P
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