Lets not forget that JMB is the creator of the .25acp, the .32acp, .38acp, .380acp, .45acp, and the .50bmg.
My personal belief on this matter is, John Browning was a thousand times smarter than the idiots on this website who discredit anything but a .45, and treat it like it was the ONLY goal that JMB strived for. I see no reason to believe that JMB would have an issue with one of HIS calibers, being used in one of HIS guns. Lighten up people.... .45acp is not god almighty, or else JMB would have designed all his handguns to use it. Theres a time and place for all calibers.
But then another way to look at that is that even the guy who CREATED the round didn't choose it for the 1911. I believe, though, that the original question from this thread was NOT, "does 380 suck", or "is 380 stupid", just "is it a 1911?" No, it is not. And for those who get all panty-strangled when we say that, why do you CARE if it's called a 1911? If you have a .380 or a .25 or a .22lr that looks and functions more or less like a 1911, why do you give an aerial fornication whether it's called a 1911? A Hummer or an FJ is not a Jeep. That doesn't mean they're stupid or worthless (except the hummer...), they're just not Jeeps.
OK....to clarify and keep my 1911 man card.....I have a .22Lr pistol that really "Looks" a lot like a 1911.
I didn't know you had a 1911 in .22lr.
I've often wasted what few brain cycles I have left on the question of what makes a gun a 1911. My Sig P238 is shaped externally like a 1911, yet I don't consider it to be a 1911. There is too much different going on internally to be called a 1911. But, what about some others like a Kimber Compact. When I compare that to my Remington Rand, there's a lot different there too, yet I consider it to be a 1911.
To me, and maybe only to me, a 1911 is defined by the way the trigger, disconnector, sear, hammer, safetys and barrel links function. That makes a Systema a 1911, but a Ballestar Molina is not. With that decided, I can focus those ever slowing neurons on more important issues like which bourbon I like best.
So....they have re-invented the Llama IIIA.
Bah....
The .45 ACP is a weak, rimless ripoff of the .45 LC equivalent to a .45 Schofield.
Not to mention, the .45 ACP round as well as the 1911 are a fad. Like the internet, it's just the hot thing now and will quickly be replaced by the next better thing. I hear they are making guns out of plastic now days...