A positive media story on the 1911

[Bajablast]

The 1911 Semiautomatic Pistol: Why America's Enemies Still Fear This 100-Year-Old Gun

Definitely a good read.

I guess it just takes awhile for the positive truth to hit in the media.

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[HuckleberryFun]

Just what I've been saying all along...
(Quibble: it's not the "Congressional Medal of Honor," it's just the Medal of Honor. Congress has no honor.)

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Sergeant York sure seemed to use his to good effect.
His 1911 that is .
He always said "Uncle Sam's Medal isn't for sale." , when asked to tell his story.
I am glad he finally got around to tell it.
Andy

 

[nammac]

Long live JMB's 1911's!!!

 

[Libertas7]

Well that's cool, I didn't know Singer made any 1911's.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well that's cool, I didn't know Singer made any 1911's.

Just goes to sew ... I mean show what happens when we all join together to win a war.
Andy

 

[nammac]

Unfortunately, today we'd have to contract such work to China, Brazil or the Philippines, cause we don't have hardly any manufacturing here anymore...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

"Liked" not 'cause of really "liking" what you posted nammac ... But do agree and think that it is sad.
Andy

 

[Mark W.]

Unfortunately, today we'd have to contract such work to China, Brazil or the Philippines, cause we don't have hardly any manufacturing here anymore...

Except there are more companies making 1911's in the USA then there were during WWII.

 

[nammac]

Except there are more companies making 1911's in the USA then there were during WWII.

Think capacity to build a million on short notice...

 

[P7M13]

I wouldn't call the article positive media on the 1911 considering that NationalInterest.Org can be considered politically similar to the National Rifle Association. I'd be smiling a HUGE smile if it were published in the New York Times, and be thinking, "There! Take that Bloomberg, you miserable fvck!" Sadly, the article doesn't discuss at all why enemies still fear the 1911. [edit] Even sadder still, while I don't read much anymore, I think you'll have to look long and hard to find unbiased reporting from any major news media outlet. The only articles I can remember reading in the last decade that were fairly unbiased were in the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

I don't think that our lack of US based manufacturing would be a problem. We have more tooling, more factory space, and still have remarkable depth in natural resources, if it ever came to that. IMO, the manufacturing we don't do here is because of environmental regulation and labor rates. Funny thing, a lot of the stuff built overseas could be built as inexpensively or even less, here. In my travels to companies, I have come across a handful of examples where it was done, and yet contracts were lost to China because of corporate mentality. Go figure.
As we have seen in a steady progression, the next war is going to be one of technology, and that is an area where we do have tremendous capacity and capability.

 

[Diamondback]

The funny thing is, while the 1911 may have more *measured* recoil, it has less and a different kind of *felt* recoil--1911 recoil is a straight line that comes gradually, while a high-bore-axis polymer 9mm it's all at once and with a high flip, kind of like why a pilot who weathers a 9-g maneuver just fine in a slower*-G-loading blacks out doing the same 9-g maneuver in a much snappier F-22.
*In relative terms; an F-16 can still dish out more than most of us here can take, myself included!

 

[orygun]

Here's a 1911 to fear!

The Lebman 1911 Machine Pistol - Guns.com

 

[mjbskwim]

Think capacity to build a million on short notice...

Wouldn't be necessary nowadays. If we had to deploy that many soldiers there would be enough guns available to arm them all.

 

[Diamondback]

Wouldn't be necessary nowadays. If we had to deploy that many soldiers there would be enough guns available to arm them all.

Hell, if we needed to mobilize a million we could just give everyone a voucher and tell 'em to swing by the LGS on the way to Basic...

 

[mjbskwim]

Hell, if we needed to mobilize a million we could just give everyone a voucher and tell 'em to swing by the LGS on the way to Basic...

Exactly. You would give a platoon a certain gun so there was like magazines. You can't tell me the LGSs wouldn't be all over supplying our forces

 

[Libertas7]

Here's a 1911 to fear!

The Lebman 1911 Machine Pistol - Guns.com

Okay, next time someone tells me I don't need a fully-automatic gun I'm showing them this! How could you say you don't need one of these?

 

[Diamondback]

Exactly. You would give a platoon a certain gun so there was like magazines. You can't tell me the LGSs wouldn't be all over supplying our forces

Though more likely it'd be an AR15 rather than a 1911.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Think about this, The U.S. arsenals are still stocked to the ceilings with surplus and left overs from WW-1 to present in many cases, something very smart that our armed forces have always done in the last 117 years or so! Think how many millions of small arms still sitting there packed in original grease and packaging, in hopes that some day, if this nation ever had the need, the arsenal of freedom could be rolled out in very short order! Just to give you an idea, there are close to 2 million 1911's sitting in storage right now!

 

[mjbskwim]

Though more likely it'd be an AR15 rather than a 1911.

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I was thinking whatever guns were available. Never mentioned 1911s or ARs
It would be easy to supply whatever guns the forces wanted. You might have to go to every gun shop there is. Or just give some guys vouchers for certain guns and group them together.
Not that anyone from the military is reading or cares about my posts