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Patent drawing of the Colt M1911 pistol, side view, from J. M. Browning's U.S. Patent 984,519 — Fig. 1. J. M. Browning, Firearm. Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

After years of searching investigation and rigidly imposed tests of every lesser number, science, the clergy and the U.S. Ordnance Board are in agreement. There is one caliber, and it is forty-five. Not forty-four. Not forty-six. They do not make a forty-six, and now you know why.

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1928 The Thompson
Model of 1928

1911 The Colt
Model of 1911

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The Arm That Settled the Question

The Colt Automatic PistolModel of 1911

Cutaway patent drawing of the M1911 showing the recoil spring, barrel link, magazine and hammer, Fig. 4 of U.S. Patent 984,519

Designed by John Moses Browning of Ogden, Utah, and chosen by the United States Government over every rival submitted. It has since been carried through two world wars, countless police holsters and one hundred years of arguments it has won.

Colt Automatic Pistol, Government Model

Specifications

Halftone of the Colt Government Model pistol, left side

Capacity of Magazine,: 7 Shots.
Length of Barrel,: 5 Inches only.
Length over all,: 8½ Inches.
Weight,: 39 Ounces.
Finish,: Full Blued; Checked Walnut Stocks.

Cartridges:

Caliber .45 U. S. Government, 230 grain bullet.
Caliber .45 Colt Automatic, 200 grain bullet.
(Both rimless; smokeless powder; full jacketed bullet.)

The action of this pistol is automatic except that the trigger must be pulled to fire each shot (continued discharge will not result from one pull of the trigger).

Rapidity of fire depends solely upon the shooter's quickness in pulling the trigger, seven cartridges being automatically supplied from a detachable magazine seated in the handle of the pistol, which with one in the barrel chamber gives the arm a capacity of eight shots.

After page 2 of Colt's commercial Government Model manual, c. 1916.

The Annihilator of Arguments

The Thompson Submachine GunModel of 1928

Patent drawing of a Thompson submachine gun with finned barrel, two pistol grips and box magazine, from O. V. Payne's U.S. Patent 1,357,208

Conceived by General John T. Thompson for the man who finds one forty-five insufficient. It delivers the cartridge of the Model of 1911 in wholesale quantity, a convenience the modern household did not know it needed.

Patent drawing of a drum magazine, Fig. 4 of O. V. Payne's U.S. Patent 1,347,755 — The celebrated drum. O. V. Payne, Cartridge-Magazine, 1920.

Inventor: Gen. John T. Thompson
Maker: Auto-Ordnance Corporation
Cartridge: .45 A.C.P.
Feeds from: 20- or 30-round box, 50- or 100-round drum
Also known as: Tommy Gun, Chicago Typewriter
Drawing: O. V. Payne, No. 1,357,208, 1920

"There's no getaway against a Thompson!"
Auto-Ordnance sales literature, 1920s

Reprinted by Popular Demand

1910s Colt advertisement headed VICTORY: Colt Automatic Pistol just adopted by the U.S. Government, showing the M1911 beneath an eagle — Victory. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., c. 1911–1918.

Colt advertisement, about 1912: The New Service Side Arm, Colt Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45 Government Model, with a specifications table — The New Service Side Arm. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., c. 1912.

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