Colt Government Model 1911 SAO 45 AUTO

Brand Name: Colt
Model: Government Model 1911
Action Type: Single Action Only Hammer
Caliber/Guage: 45 ACP
Barrel Length: 5"
Capacity: 7+1 rounds
This gun comes with: (1) 7-round magazine, original grips, box

 

The Colt M1911 is a single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911, and Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the improved M1911A1 model, which entered service in 1926.

Designed by John Browning, the M1911 is the best-known of his designs to use the short recoil principle in its basic design. The pistol was widely copied, and this operating system rose to become the preeminent type of the 20th century and of nearly all modern centerfire pistols and has become popular with civilian shooters in competitive events.