Quote Originally Posted by ruthabagah View Post
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What is better: A one shot kill, or saturate your target with enough lead that you don't have to be accurate?
Another point. When I first starting shooting pistols just pointing the weapon at the target and blasting away at 25 yards was a good way to completely miss the target. A pistol is wildly inaccurate in undisciplined hands compared to a rifle in the same situation.

I would assume tho that the situation being a trained military force that the 1911 vs a pistol with more capacity argument would give the advantage to the pistol with a lot of rounds and good reliability/accuracy. It's still awesome that a classic design is found worthy of duty.