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Career burglars do their research and pick easy targets. A visible alarm system will go a long way towards discouraging a thief from selecting your unit to hit. It may not discourage everyone, but it is an effective form of protection. You can look at it a few ways: 1. It will discourage...

10-8 Performance makes them for 12 bucks: HERE. They also sell some pretty good tools for reasonable prices. The armorers block is really damn useful. To the OP: Like a lot of others have said, all you really need to do basic maintenance is a 3/32 punch and a screwdriver to fit your grip...

I vote that you buy an alarm system first. The best way to win a fight is to prevent it from happening. A burglar wants to steal stuff and not get caught. If a loud alarm starts going off the moment he makes entry, he'll run and you won't have to worry about all the messy practical, legal...

In response to the original poster: With the exception of the 4th grade curriculum, those lessons all looked reasonable to me. The Four Rules apply to someone handling a firearm and the gist of the lessons is that they should not be handled without adult supervision. This is a reasonable...

Of all the options you've mentioned, I'd go with Springfield without a doubt. If you're willing to spend more, drop the money on a Wilson kit or an Ed Brown kit.... but of all the options you've mentioned, Springfield will give you the best starting point.

If you're not looking to disassemble it, then go with 1kPerDay's recommendation of a boresnake, rag, and some CLP. However, once you put 500 or more rounds through it, a snake and wipe won't get rid of some of the grittiness you'll feel in the trigger. It's worth learning how to disassemble it...

This and this are good resources to diagnose magazine and ejection issues.

$9.80... takes a bit to learn how to aim, but there are zero documented instances of fail to feed, whisper quiet operation, and it fires the whole cartridge which increases efficiency by some huge impressive percentage.

Lothar - A 9mm 1911 is a finicky gun. Don't just take my word for it: This guy knows what he's talking about.

I'm curious why you would want the commander sized 1911 rather than a gov't 1911 if you don't intend to carry. The 5" 1911s tend to be more reliable and have longer service lives than their smaller counterparts. I can't speak to your other choices, so I'll give you the ups and downs of what I...

valnar - Changing from a full length guide rod to a GI rod and plug is a great way to simplify the process of stripping your 1911. IMHO, the fewer tools you need to disassemble the 1911, the better. That also means switching out the torx or hex grip screws for flat head GI screws fat enough to...

kmbrman - It's fortunate that you have not experienced issues with the external extractor. However, to discount the issues which other users have experienced simply because you have not experienced them is unconstructive at best, and just short of calling those same people liars at worst. Still...

Zerodefect - It may be true that those quotes could be applied to other companies, but that's not the context in which they were used. Other companies certainly have their share of of issues, and to omit those issues from a discussion would make for a pointless and flawed comparison.... but this...

Charlotte ALE doesn't think so (Feb 2011). In their defense, they were using officer length barrels. 3.5" barrels don't cycle as reliably as 5" models and this should have been a major factor in selecting a 1911 for duty use. In the interests of establishing context, the above two...