Why is it so damn sexy, /k/?

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>>31381604
Because of this man

>>31381604
Because functional beauty IS aesthetic beauty.

Yup.

>>31381604
because it's the first pistol that got it all right. The recoil operation system is the system for handguns.

>>31381649

Based Browning is based.

It's from a time when men needed the best gun to win a war.

Just picked up a Browning. Can't wait to take it out to the range.

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>>31381604
Because form followed function, and function in this case was perfected over various models by a man with an already exhaustive and defining career in firearms that still wasn't over. It was tempered by the realizations of necessity in a sidearm by a military that was growing in power.

>>31381604
>First successful semi-auto pistol
>Awesome round
>Most widely used service handgun on the planet
>Still relevant after 100+ years
>All modern-day autoloaders copy the design to some extent

>>31384955
>first successful auto
Whoa there fella. The 1903 and the euro versions sold a shit ton before 1911.

The other stuff is more true though.

>>31381604
1 In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good. And behold the Lord said, "Thou shalt not muck with my disciple John's design for it is good and it workith. For John made the 1911, and lo all of his weapons, from the designs which I, the Lord, gave him upon the mountain."

>>31387796

4 Their artisans did hang all manner of foul implements upon the 1911 and did so alter it that it became impractical to purchase. For lo, the artisans didst charge a great tax upon the purchasers of the 1911 so that the lowly field worker could not afford one. And the profaning of the internal parts didst render it unworkable when the dust of the land fell upon it, and these profaners didst try and fit more rounds of ammunition into the magazines than the holy number of seven, appointed for the .45.

>>31387815

7 Seeing the malfunctions and the confusion of men, the lord of the underworld did see an opportunity to further ensnare man and didst bring forth pistols made of plastic, whose form was such that they looked and felt like a brick, yet the eyes of man being clouded, they were consumed by the plastic pistol and did buy vast quantities of them.

>>31387827

11 And when man had been totally ensnared with the plastic pistol, the lord of the underworld didst cause a plague of the terrible Ka-Boom to descend upon man and the plastic pistols delivered their retribution upon men. And there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth in the land.

>>31387834

12 Then seeing that the eyes of man were slowly being opened and that man was truly sorrowful for his sinful misdeeds, the Lord did send his messengers in the form of artisans who did hear and obey the teachings of the prophet and who didst restore the profaned 1911s to their proper configuration, and lo, to the amazement of men they didst begin to work as the Lord had intended.

>>31384955
.45 acp isn't an awesome round. It has no benefits over a 9mm hollow point
>more recoil
>less capacity
It's an outdated round from a time when people were still experimenting. It's good enough but there is no reason to pick one over 9mm.

>>31387796
>>31387815
>>31387827
>>31387834
>>31387846

Excerpts from the gospel of browning

>>31387850
>tiny cuck bullets
>in any way good

Try harder faggot. 9mm regardless of load is BB gun tier.