The legendary "Colt" is the best pistol in the history of the US Army

Meanwhile, those of you who know me could expect that I have given this title of 9-mm Beretta M9 gun (aka Beretta 92fs in the civilian market). Unfortunately, no matter how I love this gun and Beretta status as the oldest industrial company in the world, 33 years of faithful service M9 are tarnished through low-quality shops and allegedly insufficient 9mm cartroon slaughter (neither one nor the rest really reflects the quality of the pistol design ).

Objectively speaking, the best pistol of all the time that has ever been armed with the US Armed Forces should be considered a legendary semi-automatic M1911 caliber. reliable, trouble -free and accurate weapons. Focus has translated the article of the former Air Force officer Christian D. Orra about the veteran of small arms, which is still popular among the military and lovers.

Speaking "M1911", I mean as an original M1911 gun, designed by John Moshes Browning-probably the most prominent weapons designer of all time-and variant M1911-A1, which replaced him in 1929. Browning developed both a gun and a . 45 ACP as a replacement of army revolvers . 38 Long Colt, which were recognized as extremely unsuccessful during the fights with Moro fanatics during the Philippine uprising in 1899. According to Massad Self-Defense expert F.

Ayob in his 1983 book The Truth About Self Protection (and confirms 35 years later in the article for The Armory Life magazine), 1911 became the first firearm that was fully tested Shooting in the US Army. It happened in a dramatic way: the gun withstood a grueling test of 6,000 shots to persuade the US army bureaucracy to accept the first general -purpose autopistolet in history. In his book The Gun Digest Book of the . 45, published in 1989, Great Dean A.

Grennell eloquently tells about these tests of a gun and how the inventor of 1911 passed them: "After a while, his friend Fred came to Browning some time before Browning Moore asked, "John, you have no nerve in the body?" - he lifted both hands, whose fingers were shining fiercely. - But no damn soul, except for us, never knows about it ". . . There has been a long, loud silence, which finally broke the loud roar of one of the soldiers who inserted the ammunition into the shops.

" He did it, I swear to God! " - He said, rejoicing. A laughing explosion, which was quickly followed by three rounds of applause against Browning and urgent requests for a happy inventor to make a speech . . . " Gentlemen, "he said," a young man who said so eloquently a minute ago, Aptly expressed my feelings. I can't add a single word, except to thank you to all. " This so -called "Great War" the so -called "Army machine" for the first time confirmed its legendary status.

In the Canadian army, - to write in your famous book "Sagittarius went to war": "All the case with a gun can be summed up:" I infrequently come in handy this thing, but when I need it, then I need a hell strongly.

" Whatever perfectly pronounced M1911 in the dirty and bloody trenches of Europe times of the First World War, it could be improved, especially for his tendency to bite his hands that feed him, that is, to eat the skin on the arm of the shooter, and the excessively large stroke of the trigger (memory Pit that the average adult was 110 years ago was miniature than their peers today).

And if we talk about the personal experience of having a vintage Colt M1911 sample of 1918, his fly, except that it is tiny, is also very fragile. Therefore, in 1926, which, in a sad coincidence, became the last year of Browning's life, numerous changes were made to the design: a thickened fly, arcuate spring body, elongated chicken spur, shorter trigger, as well as relief cutout elongated fuse spur.

Thus, 1911-A1 was excellent for American soldiers during the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the invasion of Grenade. In 1984, it was officially replaced by the aforementioned Beretta M9, ​​but the guns of the 45th caliber did not disappear immediately, and the old large-caliber pistols were still used during the 1991 Gulf of Persian (also known as the Storm Operation in the Desert ").

Expeditionary detachments of marine infantry, capable of conducting special operations, such as Marine Raiders, used modified M1911-A1 until 2016, when they were finally replaced with 9-mm Glock 19 pistols. Although the 1911 pistol is no longer in service Incredibly popular with weapons around the world 113 years after their invention.

The 1911 pistol manufacturers are still enough-from SIG and AUTO-ORNANCE (the same company that produces the legendary Tommy Gan) to Smith & WESSON, RUGER and Springfield Armory . Christian D. ORR is a former Air Force officer, a federal law enforcement officer and a private military contractor (he worked in Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kosovo, Japan, Germany and Pentagon).