I always get a kick out of, "But it's a hundred year old design!"
Glockophiles rave about only needing a punch to disassemble the entire weapon. CHECK.
The 1911 set the standard for grip angle. CHECK.
Even if it is modified to use the ejection port for lock-up, most pistols are still short recoil tilt barrel BROWNING systems of one flavor or another. CHECK.
The .45ACP is still considered the benchmark of combat pistol rounds, at least in the Americas. That little abbreviation does stand for AUTOMATIC COLT PISTOL, the 1911 being that pistol. CHECK.
Maybe the 1911 was a couple of centuries, not just one, ahead of its time?
"Primitive" though it may be, no other make has even come close to duplicating the trigger pull and reset one can get on even a pedestrian example of the type. That trigger system is what makes the 1911A1 the choice of our elite units, not hoary old tradition. A shooter not jerking a, for example, DAO polymer trigger, will likely not need more than the eight or nine shots the 1911A1 can provide with buttery control.
People mistake change for progress all of the time. I own several types of autopistols and if all but one had to go, I am hanging onto a 1911A1 of some stripe.
And of course, some of my 1911A1s do not have barrel bushings. Several lock up as well as anything else ever made. Most do have a firing pin safety of one form or another. I do dislike the plunger tube as a weakness in the design, but it has yet to fail me, and I don't know that the little wire springs and miscellany parts that make the slide releases and safeties work on other pistols are necessarily any better.
I do think you'll be reading about the 1911A1 for the rest of your life. Maybe you should stop purveying most gun rags?
A modernized 1911A1 is no less modern than any other metal framed pistol.
