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From: boardman%cancer.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu
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Subject: Re: Big bore carry guns (and Sig Sauer)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 20:30:29 GMT
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In article <35347@mimsy.umd.edu>, optilink!cramer@uunet.UU.NET (Clayton Cramer) writes:
#In article <35246@mimsy.umd.edu>, snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth) writes:
## In article <35140@mimsy.umd.edu>, jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden) writes:
## #    I would like it to have the following characteristics:
## #[...]
## #    I've been looking around, and I haven't found a firearm which meets
## #all these criteria.  I thought I'd found it in the Colt Officer's .45,
## #but that's got a magazine-drop safety.  Anyone know of a firearm which
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
## #fits all or most of my criteria, or am I dreaming?
#
#Unless the Colt Officer's is radically different from the other
#Colt .45s, it does NOT have a magazine safety.
#
#Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
#They can have my urine sample when they pry it from my dead, cold fingers.
#"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;" --
#from James Madison's rough draft of the Second Amendment.

	This has been re-posted enough times that I feel I must respond!
  I have a series 80 stainless Colt Officer's model, and it most certainly
  does _NOT_ have a magazine safety!!!!  I have seen many other Colts, of
  all types, but have never seen one based on the 1911 with a magazine-drop
  safety!!!!!


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