Saw a 1911 in a movie with rubber bands around the grip?

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The movie knockaround guys...

In the shoot out near the end, John Malkovich uses a 1911 and it looks like it has rubber bands wrapped all around the grip. At first I thought this must be a cheap grip improvment... then I thought about the grip saftey, maybe its a way to deactivate it without pinning it? Anyone ever hear of something like this?

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http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Knockaround_Guys
Youll see it at the IMFDB link...
 
Could serve a double purpose. Some folks used rubberbands around the grip to deactivate the grip safety and others to aid retention inside the waistband with varying degrees of success.
 
Picture isn't the clearest but if they re high on the grip its the grip safety. Otherwise its to make it bigger around and ''stickier'' so it stays in the waist band without a holster. So x 2 on above.
 
IIRC, Texas Ranger Charlie Miller used a strap/band to deactivate the grip safety of his 1911. I have heard that the modification was popular with LEO's of that era.

The pistol in your picture does not appear to be a 1911. It looks like a Glock, but I could be wrong.
 
That's an old, old school trick for "serious" use 1911's. Cheap method of pinning the grip safety. I would venture a guess that it was also done as a non-permanent mod by those that were issued 1911's for duty work.
 
That is a Glock style grip not a 1911. The angle is too steep.
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I don't think so? I can just make out the colt medalion on the grip and the slide looks more rounded then a glocks. Also looks like the slide is in mid recoil. The trigger looks like one of the lightend ones with three holes in it.

But I could be all wrong, it happens.

WB
 
Interesting idea to keep the grip safety pinned...and actually probably a good way to get some extra grip.

And for the model debate, here's the image brightened up a bit.

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This is a old school thing the old timers use to do. From my understand it was indeed to serve two uses keep the safety disengaged cause some people just don't like grip safeties, and also to give it more grip when tucked IWB. Remember conceal carry wasn't always as accepted and popular as today and people would often carry IWB without a holster, had to keep it from sliding down into their boot.
 
The better grip makes sense. In the movie he kept it in his waistband, around 11 o clock for a cross draw. He does it with no holster. I never thought of the issue of the weapon falling into your pants. Kinda comical but a real problem apparently. So its both... pin the saftey and give you a no slip grip. Pretty cool.

Im not sure it would really be needed today with our nice rubber grips and speed bump grip safteys though.

And thanks for the brightened picture. Pretty sure I can tell the difference between a glock and a 1911. But that picture was way to dark, sorry about that.
 
Interesting. I've seen revolvers with rubber bands wrapped around the grips, but this is the first time I've seen an autoloader done that way.
 
That's a Colt Gold Cup National Match. Not a guess, a fact.
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If that's a Gold Cup, then someone ripped him off and replaced the slide with a fixed rear sight version. Never been a Gold Cup made with a rear sight like the one in the pics above. Not a guess, a fact. :)

If you want to know what the people who made the movie claim it is, go here and click on the 1911A1 link under "The following firearms were used on the movie Knockaround Guys" to the left:

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Knockaround_Guys
 
IMFDB isnt necessarily accurate, and there is a small amount of arguement over what kind of gun it is there. Mostly because of the sights, and the slide serrations.

I find it odd that some do this with revolvers too, must be just for the grip on them.
 
Rubber band tourniquets?

In the event they get shot in the head, they can put them around their neck real tight to stop the bleeding.

Or the prop department forgot to take them off with the paper name-tag that said which movie it was supposed to be used in that day?

rc
 
I've seen it a few times, on both the big screen and real life, and have done it myself. Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) also had rubber bands wrapped around his Glock in "Hostage," and I've seen it in another move but cant think of what it was.

Basically, a Houge wraparound (hand-all?) is a newer, prettier, and tougher version.

Great for women in need of hair ties as well.
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Dont forget us long haired guys...

Anyway, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone willing to use a rubber band as a hair tie. Anyone who has likely wont do it again. A lot of hair comes out with that rubber band, and its not enjoyable.
 
Very good point; spoken from the voice of experience. I will start using actual hair ties for my grips now.
 
I've never watched that movie. Maybe he uses it as a reminder of that particular non-Gold Cup Colt's body count. Kinda like hash marks in the wood grip?
 
Didn't say it was a correct fact, merely a fact. Colts don't come with an oversized mag. catch button standard either. The fact that this one wears an arched MSH implies it is not correct for a Gold Cup either.

Have a look at Angelina's AMT in Wanted and tell me which model that is, complete with bullet curving technology.
 
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Have a look at Angelina's AMT in Wanted and tell me which model that is, complete with bullet curving technology.
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She does not use an AMT in the movie "Wanted".
She uses a Safari Arms (Olympic Arms) Matchmaster that's been heavily engraved for the movie.
 
I don't know why the guy in the movie has the bands on the grip, but Chuck Perry is correct in that this is a common way to deactivate the grip safety on a 1911. Always has been. Not as permanent as pinning.

Maybe it was done because the actor had a hard time getting the gun to go off. :D
 
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