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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
The Colt 45 was invented to put down the Moro Warriors during the Philippine - American conflict of 1899-1902
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It's an interesting story about the need for a self-loading .45:
Despite adhering to the Muslim faith, the Moro warriors often took drugs to inhibit the feeling of pain in battle, while the hallucinatory effects would allow the warriors to feel invincible.
Between the armor, the drugs and simply the fact that the Moro – who had resisted foreign rule for 400 years – were bad asses in the truest sense meant that the .38 round lacked the stopping power the Army needed. Stories were told of U.S. soldiers found lying dead with their throats cut next to a dead Moro warrior who had taken six shots to the chest.
The situation was so desperate that for a while soldiers reverted to the M1873 single-action revolver in the .45 Colt caliber as the heavier bullet proved to be more effective against the charging tribesman.
The Army needed a better sidearm, and U.S. Army’s Chief of Ordnance, General William Crozier, authorized testing for a new service pistol and cartridge to go with it.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/12/firearms-legend-how-the-us-armys-m1911-45-acp-gun-was-born/