"Browning M1911s For Sale – US Gov’t Liquidating Stock ..." Topic

…of Classic Sidearm.

"Imagine entering the Army and receiving your personal firearms only to see that the pistol that you are issued, the Browning M1911, looks very much worse for wear; the front sight is askew, and the bluing has just about been rubbed off. Pfc Sean Lamphere found himself in just this situation when, in 1993, he received his pistol when stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. He thought the pistol looked like it had seen years of service and he was correct; the gun had been in service for 50 years.

For the past 80 years, stretching from the start of World War I to Operation Desert Storm, the sidearm of choice for the US military has been the M1911, created in 1911 by J. M. Browning. The pistol was initially manufactured in the Colt factory before being produced by Browning.

The question is, how did this pistol remain unchanged for 80 years until it was decommissioned in 1985? The simple answer is that in 1945 the Army purchased so many of these pistols that they have been using up their stock ever since…."
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Ouch, about $1,000 USD each.

Our commander in chief thinks arming teachers is a good idea. Why not give the guns away to teachers and put an end to violence in our schools?

You know, that might be enough for me to quit my current job and become a teacher.

I work in a school system. That is actually not a bad idea.
Or they could repeal the laws that designate schools as target rich environments, ummm, I mean, gun free zones.

Having been to school, I'm hard-pressed to think of any of them I would trust with a gun …

Please consider that snark about teachers, not political.

Don't need to buy one. My wife has her dad's M1911 "zombie" pistol. He found it in Tunisia outside air base where his squadron was laying over before proceeding to CBI. The unit armorer switched out either the barrel/receiver portion of the handgrip/trigger portion because of severe deterioration. He carried it during rest of war in CBI and brought it home with him.

Jim

I loved my 1911 back in the day.

On April 16, 2007, a school shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident of South Korean origin, shot 49 people on campus with two semi-automatic pistols (a Glock 19 and a Walther P22), killing 32 and wounding 17. Several other victims were injured jumping from windows to escape Cho. As police stormed Norris Hall to find and arrest Cho, he shot himself in the head with a pistol, and died instantly.

I immediately got onto the internet, and advocated having all universities offer scholarships to returning veterans, upon their passing mental examination, and agreeing to carry concealed to be in the classroom to protect their fellow students, and stop such mass violence in its tracks.

My Texas daughter – on her own – got a concealed carry permit, and is allowed to carry in her classroom. The school is hardened against such intruders – all doors locked except to push outward in the event of emergency. Main door controlled by administrative staff and uniformed security. Metal doors on all the rooms with bullet-proof glass so the teachers can see into the hallways before letting the children leave.

They are in tornado country – there have been tornados in every US state – so these building moves can do double-duty throughout the US.

I also encourage making it public that there "may be dozens" of school employees and plain clothes visitors on hand in the event of a potential shooting. Just look at how well that rumor worked when we resumed hostilities against Saddam Hussein – where every captured general said, "Oh, my division did NOT have chemical weapons, but the Republican Guards did, and one division on my right did, and one on my left…."

If there are courses in college for getting into security services, there could be some great programs with miniatures, and mock-ups of school buildings – even the entire campus – to determine how a perpetrator might get into the classrooms.

GdeP

I'm a teacher and I would LOVE one of these guys. I trained on M1911s back in the day and it's a sweet sidearm.