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3/16/2010 7:43:35 PM EDT
In my life time I would never have imagined that I would have seen a 1911 safety break off while engaging it.
It literally popped off the side of the frame like an old bottle cap.

Crappy metal or just wear & tear?

The gun was an older 1911 Springfield that I bought as a stripped frame & pieced together.
Internals are Ed Brown but because of the older frame I went with Colt parts off of GunBroker.com

My gunsmith is perplexed by this, & I myself am baffled by it.

Has anyone else had this kind of failure?
3/16/2010 7:52:16 PM EDT
[#1]
Who made the safety?  Colt?  I am not a Colt fanboy but it is pretty rare that you hear of one of their safeties breaking.
3/16/2010 8:20:57 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
Who made the safety?  Colt?  I am not a Colt fanboy but it is pretty rare that you hear of one of their safeties breaking.


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