Are John Browning’s Best Known Kids Still Up to Muster for EDC

By Chris Eger

Some things, like an M1911A1 GI, a Browning Hi-Power, a Swiss Army knife or a P-51 can opener, have been augmented by more modern offerings but that doesn’t mean they stop working as designed. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Utah firearms genius John Browning was something of the Thomas Edison of American gun development, but are his best-known pistols still up to snuff for EDC use today?
With that in mind, after using and, yes, occasionally carrying these guns off and on for the past several decades, here is my take.
The M1911
Developed from a string of designs across the early 20th Century to compete in a variety of U.S. Army trials for a modern handgun that didn’t have a revolving cylinder, the Model of 1911 proved popular enough that Uncle Sam kept it around as the GI standard sidearm for a solid 75-year run. When you think of the National Match handguns, tough-guys like Lee Marvin or Humphrey Bogart, or the leather holsters hanging on the side of every pistol-carrying American Marine or Soldier in WWI, WWII, Korea or Vietnam, it is the M1911 that comes to mind. They have been loved and carried by those as diverse as Hank Williams, Jr. and William

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