Glock replacement

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While I love them, 1911s aren’t drop-safe. Glocks only go off if you pull the trigger. Don’t do that, there won’t be no problems.

1911s can fire from dropping, bumping too hard, and more importantly, they can fail to fire for a whole host of reasons, too.

I'm no expert on 1911s but if my memory serves the series 70 has no firing pin block but the series 80 does. I may be misremembering. I no longer own any 1911s.

[Sanders]

My 1911 fell out of its holster hard enough to chip the tile in my kitchen and didn't go off. Want your gun to be "drop safe"? Don't drop it and it'll be safe!

Of course, that didn't work on a friend of my dad's whose .45 Colt Peacemaker fell out the holster in a pickup truck and went off (it was an old model with 6 in the cylinder). Bullet went in his ass cheek and came out his shoulder then bounced around in the cab. He showed me the scars.

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I'm no expert on 1911s but if my memory serves the series 70 has no firing pin block but the series 80 does. I may be misremembering. I no longer own any 1911s.

Yes, the S80 guns have a firing pin block to be drop-safe. It adds some parts that have been known to fail over the years and turn the 1911 into a paperweight.

The S80 came along when there was a push away from revolvers to semi-automatics for LE in the 1980s during which time, liability was at the forefront. It seems that most went the way of DA/SA pistols.

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My 1911 fell out of its holster hard enough to chip the tile in my kitchen and didn't go off. Want your gun to be "drop safe"? Don't drop it and it'll be safe!

Of course, that didn't work on a friend of my dad's whose .45 Colt Peacemaker fell out the holster in a pickup truck and went off (it was an old model with 6 in the cylinder). Bullet went in his ass cheek and came out his shoulder then bounced around in the cab. He showed me the scars.

Don’t think anybody goes out with the intention of dropping it, but when the topic of how safe a design is, it has to be pointed out. Glad nobody got hurt when you dropped your 1911! Many companies use heavier firing pin springs to mitigate risk.