#m1911a1

[freetheshit-outofyou]

#m1911 #m1911a1

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Love, Death & Robots: The Witness (2019)

#2019 #film #series #TV show #television #science fiction #animation #Love Death & Robots #The Witness #Tim Miller #Alberto Mielgo #Emily O'Brien #The Woman #Ben Sullivan #The Man #Colt #M1911A1

[firearms-in-film]

Fatman (USA, 2020)

#weapon #weapons #firearm #firearms #gun #guns #film #movie #action #action movie #action film #mel gibson #colt #colt m1911a1 #m1911a1 #m1911 #1911 #.45 #.45acp

[vassszabi99]

#guns #airsoft #tactical #ar15build #militarystyle #specialoperations #m32helmet #milsim #woodland #acog #holodot #armyarmament1911 #gentleman #m1911a1 #simulation #trainingday

[i-identify-guns-in-posts]

I am pretty sure I already know this gun, but could you identify this one please?

(An old gif, but I still like it.)

Colt M1911A1

#might I say- Dean's Iconic engraved ivory grips Colt M1911A1

[yourselfbanana]

Auto ordnance m1911a1 review

Auto ordnance m1911a1 review manual#

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Auto ordnance m1911a1 review series#

The 1911BKO's black oxide finish is similar to the military Du-Lite black oxide finish that was used on Singer and some Remington-Rand, Ithaca, and Union Switch & Signal Model 1911A1s, but it is different than other more familiar original military finishes, including high-polish blue, dull blue, brushed, brown, and Parkerized finishes.Īnother aspect of the Auto-Ordnance Model 1911BKO that departs from the original 1911A1 is that it utilizes an internal Colt Series 80 type of firing pin block. The military magazine had a "flat-shelf" style of follower, and the baseplate was not drilled and tapped. That's not the military style of baseplate or follower. The magazine's baseplate is drilled and tapped, and the follower is rounded. It's been some time since I looked at an original 1911 or 1911A1, so I'm not sure how much chamber throating or feed ramp adjusting/polishing was called for in John Browning's original design specs, but the Inland's feed ramp is perfectly mated to the beveled and polished barrel chamber.Magazine capacity is seven rounds, and the pistol comes with one blued-steel magazine. configuration," it's borderline blasphemous. On a pistol that is supposed to be historically accurate and in "original G.I.

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On a design that has both a manual safety and a grip safety, I think a firing pin safety is at best superfluous. Colt added these widely panned safeties to its pistols in the 1980s at the insistence of lawyers, although the company got the idea from the Swartz safety from the late 1930s, a feature tried and rejected by the military. The second is the addition of a Series 80 firing pin safety. It does, however, retain the lanyard loop. Unlike original 1911A1s, the magazine well on the Inland gun is treated to a slight bevel. Anyone bothered by that little inconsistency probably isn't interested in anything less than a 1911A1 personally blessed by John Browning himself. The magazine wells of the original 1911, 1911A1 and most commercial Colts up until well into the disco age were not beveled at all, but the magazine well of the Inland is nicely beveled. The first is in the magazine well opening in the frame. In fact, there are only two places I can find where the Inland strays from a perfect imitation of the original 1911A1. The double-diamond grips on the original 1911 were replaced on the 1911A1 with fully checkered brown plastic grips, and that's what you'll find on the Inland 1911A1. However, the Inland gun does employ a Series 80 firing pin safety. The 1911A1 features the original's brown plastic grips, a short trigger and an arched mainspring housing. I'm not aware of any manufacturer who makes a new version of the original 1911 design all of the modern "retro" guns are some variation on the 1911A1. To make accessing the short trigger easier in the "new" (post-World War I) 1911A1, beveled cuts were made in the frame just behind the trigger, and every "1911" now made sports those same scalloped cuts in the frame. The mainspring housing is steel, vertically serrated and has a lanyard loop at the bottom. That design was changed with the introduction of the 1911A1 (circa 1924), and like the original 1911A1, the Inland has an arched mainspring housing, longer grip safety spur and a short trigger. Ironically, most "modern" 1911s look like the original 1911 with a flat mainspring housing and a long trigger and double-diamond grips. The authentic "hump and a bump" sights are minimal, but to our military's way of thinking, if you needed or were down to just your pistol, the enemy was so close you probably didn't need sights at all. The slide serrations are vertical, and compared to "modern" 1911s, the ejection port is somewhat small. The new Inland Manufacturing jumped into the gunmaking business with an authentic 1945-era M1 Carbine, and it brings the same attention to detail to its 1911A1. Whether you compete in Wild Bunch stages at SASS events or just like historically accurate firearms, the 1911A1 is about as iconic an American firearm as you'll find. 45 ACP from Inland Manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio, is about as close to John Browning's 1911A1 as I've seen in a long time. However, even many 1911s advertised as being "a page out of history" aren't historically accurate. When it comes to 1911s, your two basic classes are "modern" and "original/retro." The "modern" field is crowded, the "retro" group not so much. (Taxonomy, if you didn't know, is the scientific classification of organisms by family, genus, species, etc.) When it comes to 1911s, consumers have a huge number of choices, but right now there isn't any good taxonomic classification of these pistols.

#Auto ordnance m1911a1 review

[demilypyro]

The M1911A1 from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater? In my Chainsaw Man chapter?

[charliemwrites]

My brain is being rotted by mafia!price (mostly becauseof yoour very very lovely masterpiece). So bad that a very sweet thought came to mind.

So in ww2(and of course now), soldiers would have guns with a protected picture of their loved one(s) on the grips. Specifically the Colt M1911A1.

And then I thought: imagine if mafia!price had a sweetheart grip (he totally would)

Then I went into a spiral. The thought is just *muah*, chefs kiss.

Oooooh sweetheart grip is 1, such a metal name for that and 2, absolutely a thing price is participating in

[recoiloperated]

So, yesterday to scratch the 1911 inch I've been having for the last few days, I pulled out my OG M1911a1 and cleaned it. (This thing has kind of sort of rotted in its display case for the last four years.) And given that I'm just kind of screwing around doing this casually, I was a little bit in cautious with the recoil spring plug and I sent it careening off into the outer darkness.

After spending the better part of an hour looking for it- I gave up and spent nine bucks to get one off eBay.

This morning:

[qs63]

Amestris Military Real world Influence

This is the third of my series of long posts about the Amestrian Military. This is the post for the history nerds. There are plenty of real world references in Fullmetal Alchemist, especially pertaining to the first half of the 20th century. While Amestris and its military have often been compared to Nazi Germany (especially when it comes to the anime), the references in the manga are very diverse. Disclaimer, this is by no means an exhaustive list, there are too many for me to cover in one post, and I'm not a historian. So let me know if there's any reference I might have missed or if I got something wrong!

To see the rest of this meta series check out the Main Post..

Names

Probably the easiest reference to the real world is in the names of the military personnel. Almost all of them are named after military vehicles and equipment, mainly from World War II. Some examples:

Roy Mustang — P-51 Mustang (USA WW2 aircraft)

Riza Hawkeye & Grumman — Northrop Hawkeye E-2 Grumman (USA 60s aircraft)

Maes Hughes — Hughes aircraft series (USA aircraft company)

Black Hayate — Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Japanese WW2 aircraft)

Jean Havoc & Henry Douglas— Douglas A-20 Havoc (USA WW2 aircraft)

Heymans Breda — Breda M37 (Italy WW2 Machine gun) or HMS Breda (UK WW2 Yacht)

Kain Fuery — Hawker Fury (UK 30s aircraft) 

Vato Falman — Farman aircrafts series (French aircraft company) 

Armstrong Family — Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (UK WW2 aircraft)

Weapons and equipment 

The weapons used by the military are also based on real world weaponry. Arakawa herself admitted to using references for weapons as well as for the vehicles.[1] Not all of them are a direct copy of a historical weapon, but all of them are at least inspired by one or more of them.

Pistol — Colt M1911A1 (USA 1924)

Hawkeye's pistol. [1]

Colt M1911 & M1911A

Rifle — Mauser Karabiner 98k (Germany WW2)

Hawkeye's Rifle. [1]

Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle

Hand grenade — Stielhandgranate M24 aka the potato mashers (Germany WW2)

Team Mustang's and their weapons. [1]

Stielhandgranate M24

Briggs' Tank

The Briggs' tank isn’t modeled directly after any specific tank, and rather takes inspiration from different WW1 to WW2 tanks. The manga and Brotherhood tanks take after different inspirations, with Brotherhood being more German coded than the manga tank. There's an excellent article in the tanks encyclopedia analyzing the Fullmetal Alchemist tanks if anyone's interested.

Military Cars —

We see a few military cars throughout the story. Once again the cars we see in the manga and Brotherhood are quite different, and they appear to be based on models from the late 1910s to the late 1930s.

The manga’s standard issued military car looks at least partially inspired by the American Ford model A of 1927.

Mustang's military car(manga).[2]

1927 Ford model A.

The Brotherhood art sketches have two different drawings of military cars. The first one, the one we see Mustang use, is based on the French Citroën traction avant 11CV of 1935.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood military vehicle version 1.

1935 French Citroën traction avant 11CV.

The second car seems to be inspired by the Italian Fiat Tipo 5 of the 1910s. Perhaps even inspired by one of the American made Fiat models.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood military vehicle version 2.

Fiat tipo 55.

Ranks and insignias 

With the exception of the Führer-President, the Amestrian military ranks appear to be a mix of the USA WW2 officer ranks: 

General, 

Lt. General, 

Major General, 

Brigadier General, 

Colonel, 

Lt. Colonel, 

Major, 

Captain, 

1st Lieutenant,

2nd lieutenant;

As well as the Imperial Japan NCO ranks: 

Warrant officer (Special Sergeant Major),

Master Sergeant, 

Sergeant, 

Corporal.

The history of the Imperial Japan  Warrant Officer rank is a bit confusing and complicated. In the 79 years that the Empire lasted, the Warrant Officer rank saw a lot of changes, being its own category at times, a Senior NCO at others.  The NCO Warrant Officers seem to have been specialized Sergeant Majors (also translated as Master Sergeant) that basically functioned as the most senior of the NCO ranks. Aside from this the one modern country, I could find, that has Warrant Officers as NCO is Malaysia.

The rank of Führer-President (大総統 - Daisōtō in Japanese) replaces the rank of General of the army in the USA officer classification. While the English translation is a direct reference to Nazi Germany, the Japanese word is a lot more nuanced. 

The word Daisōtō actually refers to the president of the 1912-1924 Republic of China, and if you Google it, all you will get is images of Bradley himself. The term used for “Führer” is 総統 (Sōtō), without the 大 (Dai) which is instead used in the word president 大統領 (Daitōryō), this is probably the inspiration for the Führer-president title of the official English translation. 

However, Sōtō isn't used to refer just to Nazi Germany's Führer, but rather to any fascist associated head of state. As such Germany's Sōtō is the Fuhrer, but Italy's Sōtō is the Duce (Mussolini).

The effect is technically the same (you still think of Hitler and fascism), but the Japanese word is not a direct translation of Führer, nor a direct reference to Nazi Germany, it's more subtle than the English translation. I imagine Führer was used in English (in absence of a more subtle unifying word) as it is more recognizable to the English speaker than other fascist titles like: Duce, Caudillo, Generalísimo, etc.

The WW2 imperial Japan ranks also included superior private, first class private, and second class private, but they were their own class, called soldiers, below the NCO ranks, and were mainly composed of men serving their conscripted time. This might explain their absence in the Amestrian official ranks as Amestris doesn't seem to have conscription. 

The rank insignias themselves are pretty much a copy of the imperial Japan ones. 

Amestris rank insignias.[3]

Imperial Japan ranks insignias.

Uniform

In terms of the uniform there's not one single reference or perfect match for the design, but the closest to it is probably the WW1 French infantry uniform.

Amestris military uniform. [1]

Early WW1 French uniform

Late WW1 French uniform

Aside from the color of the French uniform, the long skirt, flaps and boots are very similar to the Amestrian uniform.

The Amestrian short jacket itself seems to be inspired by the WW2 USA Ike jacket.

USA WW2 Ike jacket.

Furthermore the white lining of the Amestrian uniform reminds me of the Imperial Japan formal uniform jacket, which is itself Prussian and French inspired.

Imperial Japan Major General formal uniform.

The Briggs uniform is very much WWII winter gear inspired.

Briggs uniform.[3]

Soviet WW2 winter uniform

Finnish WWII sniper.

Out of every uniform variation, the one most German coded is, to no one's surprise, the Führer-president’s. His trench coat looks similar to the WW1 Prussian one.

Bradley in uniform.

WW1 Prussian soldiers.

In general the uniform has a very World War I vibe to it, down to the impractical, decorative parts of it like the skirt. This is an uniform that obviously predates modern warfare, very apt for the time period the story is “set on”. This makes an interesting contrast with the weaponry which seem to be mostly World War II inspired.

Other references

Ishval war of extermination 

First of all trigger warning for genocide and human experimentation. Just skip this section if you're sensible to these topics. 

Just like the Ishvalan are an amalgamation of many cultures and ethnicity, the Ishvalan civil war seems to reference multiple conflicts and events. 

Plenty of comparisons have been made with the Jewish genocide in the hands of the Nazi (and the 03 anime leans especially hard on this). There are also similarities with the Herero war and genocide at the hand of the German empire which just like the Ishval Civil war ended in 1908. Another possible reference is the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman empire, which also involved a minority living at the border of a nation the country was at war with and being suspected of colluding with the enemy. Both the Armenian and the Ishvalan soldiers serving in the army were dismissed, incarcerated, and eventually executed.

Another more clear cut reference made in the Ishval civil war is Mustang's and Knox’s experimentation. This would be a reference to the horrendous experiments done by both the Nazi and Japan's infamous unit 731. Both which included burning people to test treatments and the limits of the human body.

I am sorry to end up on such a hard note, but I think it's best we move on to other — less traumatic — topics.

Source

Fullmetal Alchemist Manga

Chapter 38: a counter attack signal [2]

The Complete art of Fullmetal Alchemist [1]

Fullmetal Alchemist perfect guide 3 [3]

Training Regime post

#fullmetal alchemist #fma #fma meta #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #amestris #my work

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Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (2016)

#2016 #gif #gaming #Uncharted 4 #A Thief’s End #Uncharted #Nathan Drake #Samuel Drake #Nadine Ross #Shoreline #Rafe Adler #Elena Fisher #Victor Sullivan #Francis Drake #Antananarivo #Madagascar #Ile Sainte-Marie #Colt #Rail Gun #M1911A1 #AKM

[firearms-in-film]

A Hard Day (South Korea, 2014)

Peace Breaker (China, 2017)

A Hard Day (Philippines, 2021)

Restless (France, 2022)

Hard Days (Japan, 2023)

#firearms #guns #film #smith & wesson #model 36 #.38 special #glock #glock 17 #9x19mm #colt #m1911 #m1911a1 #.45 acp #mossberg #12 gauge #sig-sauer #p228 #this film has so many adaptations #hard days is coming to netflix wahoo

[vassszabi99]

#guns #airsoft #tactical #ar15build #militarystyle #specialoperations #m32helmet #milsim #woodland #acog #holodot #armyarmament1911 #gentleman #m1911a1 #simulation #trainingday #cqb #me #lovemylife #spotify

[i-identify-guns-in-posts]

What's your favorite handgun, and explain why it's the M1911A1.

Korth PRS

#TRICKED YOU #NOT A 1911 #favorite gun

[tentacion3099]

Experimental ''Brastil'' M1911A1 made from bronze alloy from 1932. Durability issues sunk the project in 1934.

#vintage #gunblr

[peashooter85]

A Korean made copy of the Colt M1911A1 produced at the Pusan Iron Works in South Korea. The slide is deceitfully marked "PITTSBURG", MADE IN USA. Note that "Pittsburg" should be spelled "Pittsburgh". Dated 1946.

from Rock Island Auctions

#history #antiques #guns #firearms