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The only real SIG nowadays costs twice as much. That's what I carry.

Q: What is the difference between U.S. and Israeli schools? A: Gun-free zones.

Machine it out of steel forgings and I'll buy two.

The last wizened old coot I played this game with was Socrates. You are nowhere near his league. If you want to shoot, let's shoot. If you want to talk, let's talk. If you want to wax oracular, have a go at your faithful dog. I am not interested.

I learned a few things since then. Hasn't everyone? They must have taught you in the kindergarten that over a quarter of million is over 60,000. Or did they?

Why would I try to second-guess your 30 second fix for the breakage that stymied U.S. armorers? Not all of it, to be sure. The spring is there for a reason.

I don't care to tout my second favorite piece of jewelry in this context. None of the design improvements that I have cited above are particular to the SIG P210. All of them can be found in a variety of other post-WWII military handgun designs. By contrast, few if any of the flaws I find in the...

Thanks for your kind words. All short recoil, Browning-type handguns will eventually develop frame cracks, owing to the frame absorbing the recoil momentum in the barrel bed. Their longevity varies with the strength of materials and chamberings. Late production M1911 frames might withstand...

Thankfully so.

You are mistaking my response to a distraction for the main thrust of my argument. If you want to measure the merits of a military sidearm by its battle record, the M1911 is a distant third to the Luger and the Tokarev. So much for armchair warfare. I use other criteria. There is no...

Fewer than 300,000 U.S. battle deaths occurred in WWII. By contrast, Germany lost over 5 million soldiers. Over 80% of them were killed in the Eastern front, where the Soviet Union lost over 8.6 million soldiers. Unless you believe that the U.S. kill rate was a lot higher than the German one...

The number of casualties inflicted and suffered by the U.S. military in the XXth century is an order of magnitude below those of Germany and two orders of magnitude below those of Russia. The figures are available: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Do the math.

The XXth century military record of U.S. arms pales into insignificance when measured against that of Germans and Russians. If you want the handgun that killed the most men, get a Luger. If you want the handgun that won the biggest war, get a Tokarev. The M1911 is a sideshow, neither here nor...

I call for measuring the accuracy of a military service spec handgun against its like. To ensure parity of military specification, I propose to control for reliability. The ensuing standard of battleworthiness is objective, uniform, and consistent across the board. My prediction is that an...

The M1911 is much easier to tune than the P210. By the same token, it is much harder to make both accurate and reliable in the first place. I would rather strike a balance between accuracy and reliability under normal conditions and resistance to extreme abuse. Having made a life choice to stay...

Champions of what? Military service competitions in the U.S. and Switzerland alike exclude foreign firearms. Everything else is beside the point in evaluating the performance of SIG P210 versus that of M1911. True enough. I deny your license to pick and choose the context to suit your position...

Choose a milspec M1911 for a fair comparison.

Dip it in mud and see how it fares against a GI rattletrap. Or, for that matter, against a Glock. The point of extra accuracy is to multiply your chances of hitting your target at any range. The distance between a CNS hit and a soft tissue wound is less than an inch. The difference can add up to...

I am interested in accuracy first and foremost. Whenever the gun fails to cycle, it demonstrates a want of reliability. A score penalty can be applied for each failure.

Look in Switzerland and Sweden. Winning competitors use readily available and factory sponsored platforms.