Too_Pure
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Carrying one cocked and locked without the safety on is insanity.
That would be called cocked and not locked.
To the OP: You have to get what feels right for you. If you get a cheap 1911 it will need work to be reliable, but a properly set-up 1911 is tough to beat, except on the magazine capacity side. And even there, if you find yourself in need of more than nine rounds in a SD scenario you are probably a dead man anyway.
The 1911's you mentioned are not great. So unless you want to put a few hundred into them to make them reliable I'd go with the Glock. Have you looked at the G30? Great CCW.