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gemini wrote:

Liberty wrote:

dicion wrote: Then again, if it was a 1911 instead of some piece of BT, it would require both the trigger AND the grip safety to be pressed, in opposite directions of eachother, to fire, not to mention the thumb safety...

I'm not sayin'.. I'm just sayin.

This is not true, 1911s without a firing pin block can potentially go bang when dropped. This includes the original design 1911s, and There was a thread about a Rock Island Armory 1911 discharging in this forum

as almost anything is possible, I also believe that a mechanically sound 1911, with or without the FP safety, improbable to discharge from a drop of aprox. 4'. I read of the RIA discharge on another forum. The owner had a FP spring that was too short/or too weak.
If you can find other instances of 1911's going off from short drops, whether directly on the muzzle or otherwise please post a link or reference to that info. With or without FP safetys. Thanks in advance.

I'm the guy that had the RIA 1911 compact 45 discharge with Remington 230 grn JHP ammo,the gun fell from waist height on a tiled bathroom floor,the only alteration to the gun was an ambi safety was installed and working at the time.I did not try to catch the gun but watch it fall straight down on its muzzle, a fraction of a second later the boom.After that incident I replaced the stock factory FP spring with a wolf x strong spring.The gun had about 1000 rounds thru it at that time

I personally had a RIA 1911 45 drop from my holster at waist level muzzle first on my tiled concrete bathroom floor and discharged when it hit,my shirt got wedged between the gun and holster and when I pulled my shirt up it pulled the gun out of a crossbreed IWB holster,the JHP blew a circle in the tile and pieces of lead and copper jacket ended up in the tub and bathroom floor,I received a small cut on my ankle.I changed the Firing pin spring to a wilf X-strong one immediately afterwards,I was shocked it fired and it was from a height of only 3 feet