Military paridagams about weapons training are different than LE.
Remember, the military does a great job of taking people from any walk of life and training them for specialized situations across a broad spectrum of work projects and such.
Military training still has the core that it can take just about anybody and make them adequate at a variety of different chores.
Law enforcement training is a lot more narrow by nature. They can spend more time doing handgun training than the military does.
Also, military weapons training for handguns was designed around the m1911.
You have one soldier releave another soldier on duty and hand over his gun to him. Its just safer to have an empty chamber. And less wear and tear by cycling rounds.
Most ADs in the military take place when people were clearing guns and pointing the muzzles at the sand barrels, by the way. A friend of mine got shot in the head by a .45 when another guy pulled the trigger WITHOUT taking the mag out of the .45 first.
This is one reason why the Army wanted a weapon with a decocker, by the way.
So you have general service people who have limited time to be trained being trained to use a very, very specialized high performance weapon.
Which is why Condition 3 and Condition 4 are used by the military.
Notice that in LE circles the 1911 is still popular for SWAT type duty. Those officers have even MORE weapons training.
LE wants weapons that are SAFE first and high performance only for specialized units.
Remember, Law Enforcement had plenty of accidental discharges back when they issued double action revolvers, which are technically safer than any autoloader.
Accidents happen.
>>>If the military forced soldiers to carry the 1911 with empty chambers because of ND's, why would PD's adopt it?
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