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Honestly, my main wonder about these departments issuing 2011s broadly is around maintenance. 1911s/2011s are great guns (obviously, we're all on this forum) but they require a lot more care to make sure they run well vs. typical striker guns like Glocks, P320s or M&Ps.

1911/2011s in particular I find are pretty lube sensitive - I recall once using Infinity's blue lube in 45F degree weather at a match and my 9mm infinity 1911 had malfunctions because of how thick the lube got in the cold. I'd imagine for something like the XC, being sprung relatively light to correspond with the comp, it'll also be sensitive as well including lack of lube. Combine that with replacing recoil springs more frequently because of how light they are, I don't know if it's really a great idea to issue them to standard cops who probably aren't going to take the time to do any of this, given a lot of them don't even hit the range that often

Compare that to Glocks, which Ben Stoeger literally says he can just run into the ground, without replacing recoil springs for 40k, maybe cleaning every 10k, and barely lubing either