You 1911 guys don't trust that link safety, I have seen or heard of a number of accidents when people were trying to demonstrate how it works.
When I was about 16 a buddy of mine was showing me how it was "supposed" to work. He pressed the end on the muzzle on a 1911 against the wall and thought he had it pushed in far enough to activate the link safety. He didn't, he shot through the wall, through his sister's bedroom missing her by about 2 feet, into the living room where it destroyed a lamp and embedded in a stud in the wall.
Back in 1971 a guy on guard duty during field exercises over in Germany was showing another guy how it was supposed to work by pressing it into the palm of his hand. It discharged and the fool shot himself through the palm of his hand. By the time the ambulance got too him he went into shock and died before the medics got him to the hospital.
