JTQ
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On the other hand, if your firing pin stop should happen to break, or slide out during recoil, your firing pin isn't going to launch out of the gun, because the firing pin safety plunger is going to trap it.I have to use two punches, to depress the firing pin and the plunger, (having the firing pin spring loose!) to get the firing pin stop in place.
The plunger will also help avoid launching the firing pin during intentional dissasembly.
It's just an option. For those that like a firing pin safety on their semi-auto (and as I mentioned earlier, nearly all semi-auto's have one) they are available. If you don't like them, you can find a 1911 without one.
Relatively speaking, within the 1911 community, the Series 80 is much more popular, and has a much better reputation for reliability than the Swartz style used by Kimber.