Thread: Colt Lightweight Commander 04860XSE

How about the high power 9mm's. I messed with one a while back and it was pretty sweet. It was an off beat feg i think, but it had a smooth trigger pull / reset, and a setting that held the hammer off the firing pen while it was down along with a half cock position and the safety could be set while the hammer was down. And when that safety was on that hammer was not moving. But back on the 1911s...i have never owned or shot one, but...

I really just don't understand why you wouldn't carry one cocked and locked. There is plenty of info out there to discredit any officer charging you with "improper carry". I'm sure it is legal to carry any single action automatic that has a safety, no? If so, then what is the difference between a single action that has a hammer and one that doesn't? Nothing. People just think it is unsafe because they can...

Let me say this. The safest way to carry any 1911 design is cocked and locked or with an empty chamber. I do suggest that those who carry cocked and locked do so only after lots of practice with a 1911 pistol, and that they carry only that style/design when doing so. I have seen several guys who carried standard DA pistols, forget to throw down the thumb safety when drawing the SA 1911 pistol. Not a good mistake to make and under stress, what...