I stand corrected.

It always surprises me how old this weapon is; it still looks modern today and it’s virtually unchanged in a hundred years.

I’d say that it is probably true in the UK the counties with the highest percentage of shotgun ownership also have the lowest crime rates but that’s probably due to the fact that they are mostly rural with correspondingly low crime rates…

…rather than bands of vigilante shotgun-owners patrolling the streets! 😀

What is it that they say? There are lies, damn-lies and statistics!

Incidentally I think the people who is most likely to die by the gun of a gun-owner in the US are the gun-owner (about half gun-deaths in the US are suicides), the gun-owner’s husband, wife or partner, or the gun-owner’s children!

Yep and if you are careful about selecting your ‘facts’ properly you can make statistics support any point of view as in my point about the anti-gun lobbyists and their 15% thing.
The Colt 1911 not only continues to look modern but is so good it has been manufactured by many companies and copied by even more. I can think of at least 3 companies other than Colt in the US. Then you have some company in Argentina plus Star and Astra in Spain plus noe end of patent infringements by other countries where blatant copies are produced. I guess the reason it is still so popular is that it is a one shot stopper., get hit with one of those things and you swiftly lose interest in the fight.