Using rubber bands use to be a popular way of disabling a grip safety. It actually severed two purposes, deactivated the GS, and held the pistol firmly in the waste band if carrying Mexican. Michael Mann even used it in "Crime Story."
Yes sir, that's what I understood. We were discussing the Model 1911, which already utilized the grip safety. The Department of War requested a safety after the testing in 1905/06 as you stated, which became the Model 1907 U.S. Military Trials pistol. Browning first used what he called the...
No, the pistol had a grip safety from the Model 1907 onward, what the Calvary requested became the slide lock/thumb safety. Model 1907
Model 1910
Model 1911
Would you happen to have a link to that pistol, and do you know what makes it different than the Series 70 reproductions that have been on the market since 2002?