Ah, the 1911A1, perhaps the finest self loading handgun ever created.  A testament to its quality and reliability is that after ninety six (96) years it is still the preferered side arm of anyone in the US military who can lay their hands on one.  The Beretta M-9 is a good gun sure, but the 1911 is the 1911.  It is the supurlative of sidearms, accurate, reliable, rugged and good looking to boot.  That and it fires nice big and heavy 45 caliber ammo that will put some one down and keep them there.  Now modern bullet technology means that any good hollowpoint im 9mm or larger will do the job, but due to the US's cotinued observance of an outdated and scientifically disproven treaty soldiers on the battlefield are limited to ball ammo, in which case bigger is most definately better.  But then again a 9mm or .355 inch JHP will probably grow to be about 12.7mm or .5 inch at full expansion while a .451 or 11.7mm JHP will probably be nearly .750 to .800 inches or 22.5 to 23.25mm in size and a bigger hole is a better hole no matter how you slice it.

     As for simplicity, here she is fully detail stripped, and to get to this point all you need is either a combination tool which is little more than an L shaped piece of steel that doubles as a screw driver and punch.  In a pinch the gun can be stripped with nothing more than a round of 45acp ammo and its own parts doubling up as tools, now that is genuis.  Shown in the pics above leaning against a box of Federal 230 grain Hydrashoks.  I feel for my readers who live in less civilised and forward thinking places where owning such a fine weapon as this verboten.  As for me, I need to get off my backside and get me a licensce to carry concealed.

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From the Yomuiri Shimbun: Man resisting arrest shoots cop in buttock.

     A police sergeant was shot in the buttock at point-blank range by a man who grabbed his gun while resisting arrest on suspicion of stealing from a roadside vending machine in Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, early Friday, police said.

     The sergeant arrived at the scene at about 4:40 a.m. with two other officers after a security company reported to Tagawa Police Station that a vending machine on a national highway selling DVDs and other items had been ransacked about 20 minutes earlier, according to the police.

     The police tried to restrain two men they found in a car near the scene. One, Akira Uranaka, 29, of Kama in the prefecture and a member of the Taishu-kai crime syndicate, tried to escape, but was caught by an officer about 40 meters away. The other, unemployed Masamichi Oda, 21, of Tagawa, tried to break free when being held by the other two officers, grabbed the 29-year-old sergeant's gun from his holster and shot him.

      Since nothing more is said I think we can safely assume that the officer is going to make a full recovery.  No matter how much time passes he will be hearing about this form his buddies until the day he dies.  I would also venture a guess that he is going to be shopping for a level 3 holster as well.  This time its funny, but it reinforces the lesson that weapon retention is important for any one who carries a weapon.  The only thing worse than being shot is being shot with your own gun.

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