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Hand Grip Safety?
- Thread starter metweezer
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Smith and Wesson still makes a descendant of their old "lemon squeezer" pistols, the Model 42, which has a grip safety in the backstrap:
http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...57768_757767_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y
http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...57768_757767_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y
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It isn't a 1911 if it doesn't have a grip safety. The two guns that come to mind for me are 1911's and XD's.
No argument
Dave, it's all in how you define the gun. If the grip safety is, in your opinion, a defining element of a 1911, than so be it.
On the other hand, since I collect .45's, I can trace the development of the swinging link, dropping barrel system from the M1909 (which used two links, fore and aft). The grip safety was an add on at the demand of the cavalry, and not part of JMB's original design. But it was required for adoption in 1911.
And the history of the Argentine .45's (Colt M1927, HAFDASA, and Ballista Molina) shows the later guns are lineal descendants of the 1911/1927
Perhaps the temperature down in Mesa is starting to affect you? Come on up to the mountains, where 90 degrees is very hot!
Dave, it's all in how you define the gun. If the grip safety is, in your opinion, a defining element of a 1911, than so be it.
On the other hand, since I collect .45's, I can trace the development of the swinging link, dropping barrel system from the M1909 (which used two links, fore and aft). The grip safety was an add on at the demand of the cavalry, and not part of JMB's original design. But it was required for adoption in 1911.
And the history of the Argentine .45's (Colt M1927, HAFDASA, and Ballista Molina) shows the later guns are lineal descendants of the 1911/1927
Perhaps the temperature down in Mesa is starting to affect you? Come on up to the mountains, where 90 degrees is very hot!
Only recently did, I believe, Colt started calling one of their commercially available models the 1911, though they did have a WWI model available for a while and of course, there is the 1991 version. Technically, the commercial models were "Colt Government Model" and said so on the side. Colt exaggerates a few things on their website and I am quibbling.
Some Lugers had grip safeties.
Some Lugers had grip safeties.