Condition 1 - cocked and locked - technical question

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Yep, the Army liked Condition 3 when I was in. One time I got horse-holding duty watching the sixty crew's weapons, cuz it was decided they weren't needed on patrol, and that included the M1911A1s. Had one in each front pocket (with lanyards, kinda looked like a zoot-suiter), and got chewed out by the LT when he found out they had a round chambered with the hammers down, which I thought was a decent compromise. Civilian-wise Condition One is what I like. I also prefer a thumb-break holster, but for retention rather than being worried about NDs.

A Glock is in Condition Zero, Condition One is cocked and locked. The spring load is irrelevant, unless you think the metallurgy is going to fail, the problem is various stuffs hitting the trigger. Carrying a 1911 cocked and UNlocked is considerably safer than carrying a Glock or similar, due to the grip safety.

Same here; when I was patrolling “The Fence” in Germany back in ‘73 we were not issued any ammo for our 1911’s or our Sheridan’s. I was told that should “they’ decide to come across the fence that our life expectancy was 27 seconds and I wouldn’t need any ammo.

I knew a guy who had been in the Berlin Brigade, and he said the running joke was that the sign in front of the base was painted on both sides; when SHTF they would just flip it over to read "Prisoner of War Camp".