Editing M1911 pistol (section)

==Users==
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===Current===
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* {{Flag|Brazil}}{{sfn|Thompson|2004}}{{pn|date=March 2025}}
* {{Flag|Bolivia}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Latin American Light Weapons National Inventories |url=https://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/smallarms/lainven.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210414043014/https://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/smallarms/lainven.html |archive-date=2021-04-14 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=fas.org}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Chile}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=InfoDefensa |first=Revista Defensa |title=La Infantería de Marina de Chile licita equipamiento para unidades de seguridad |url=https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/3126407/infanteria-marina-chile-licita-equipamiento-unidades-seguridad |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Infodefensa - Noticias de defensa, industria, seguridad, armamento, ejércitos y tecnología de la defensa |language=es}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Colombia}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |title=Infantry Weaponry/Weapons |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Brill’s Digital Library of World War I|doi=10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Costa Rica}}<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Dominican Republic}}<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Greece}}<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|East Timor}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-24 |title=wiw_as_easttimor - worldinventory |url=https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_as_easttimor |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203732/https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_as_easttimor |archive-date=24 November 2016 }}</ref>
* {{Flag|Ecuador}}<ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Egypt}}<ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Fiji}}<ref name=":1" />
* {{Flag|Georgia}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-03-09 |title=Armament of the Georgian Army |url=http://geo-army.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=9&lang=en |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309192408/http://geo-army.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=9&lang=en |archive-date=9 March 2012 }}</ref>
* {{Flag|Guatemala}}<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |title=Infantry Weaponry/Weapons |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Brill’s Digital Library of World War I|doi=10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{Flag|Haiti}}<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
* {{Flag|Indonesia}}<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |title=Infantry Weaponry/Weapons |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Brill’s Digital Library of World War I|doi=10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{Flag|Iran}}<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Infantry Weaponry/Weapons |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Brill’s Digital Library of World War I|doi=10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":3" />
* {{Flag|Liberia}}<ref name=":0" />
* {{Flag|Lithuania}}<ref>{{Citation |title=M1911 pistol |date=2025-02-25 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M1911_pistol#CITEREFThompson2011 |access-date=2025-03-19 |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Malaysia}}<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://doi.org/10.21236/ada325763 |title=Weapon Systems United States Army 1995. |last=DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC |date=1995-01-01 |publisher=Defense Technical Information Center |location=Fort Belvoir, VA|doi=10.21236/ada325763 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{Flag|Mexico}}<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Infantry Weaponry/Weapons |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Brill’s Digital Library of World War I|doi=10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0304 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
* {{Flag|Nicaragua}}<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
* {{Flag|North Korea}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=군사세계 |first=유용원의 |title=북괴군 특작부대, 무장공비 사용화기, 장비 |url=https://bemil.chosun.com:443/nbrd/gallery/view.html?b_bbs_id=10044&pn=1&num=177361 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=유용원의 군사세계 |language=ko}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Philippines}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Legend of 1911 lives with the Filipino |url=https://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?16490-The-Legend-of-1911-lives-with-the-Filipino |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=forum.m1911.org}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Papua New Guinea}}
* {{Flag|Republic of China}}
* {{Flag|South Korea}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-16 |title=국방일보 |url=https://kookbang.dema.mil.kr/newsWeb/20181127/1/BBSMSTR_000000100007/view.do |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116042009/https://kookbang.dema.mil.kr/newsWeb/20181127/1/BBSMSTR_000000100007/view.do |archive-date=16 November 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=선임 |first=권홍우 논설위원 겸 |title=[권홍우 기자의 군사·무기 이야기] 특전사 58년 만에 권총 전량교체 |url=https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/011/0002805065?sid=110 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=n.news.naver.com |language=ko}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Thailand}}
* {{Flag|United States}}
* {{Flag|Vietnam}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Ian |date=2012-10-31 |title=Viet Cong 1911 Copy |url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/viet-cong-1911-copy/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=www.forgottenweapons.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Zimbabwe}}
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===Former===
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* {{Flag|Argentina}}
** Manufactured M1911 pistols under license from 1945 to 1966 by Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares{{sfn |Thompson |2011b }}
* {{Flag|Austria}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schmidl |first1=Erwin A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm78914894 |title=The Hungarian Revolution, 1956 |last2=Ritter |first2=László |last3=Dennis |first3=Peter |date=2006 |publisher=Osprey |isbn=978-1-84603-079-6 |series=Elite |location=Oxford |oclc=ocm78914894}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Belgium}}
* {{Flag|Canada}}
** [[First Special Service Force]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=www.canadiansoldiers.com |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/weapons/pistols.htm |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=www.canadiansoldiers.com}}</ref>
* {{Flag|ROC|name=China}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=W. H. B. |title=Small arms of the world: a basic manual of small arms |last2=Smith |first2=Joseph Edward |date=1969 |publisher=Stackpole Books |isbn=978-0-8117-1566-9 |edition=9th ed. completely rev |location=Harrisburg, Pa}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Cuba}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=De Quesada |first1=A. M. |title=The Bay of Pigs: Cuba, 1961 |last2=Walsh |first2=Stephen |date=2009 |publisher=Osprey Pub |isbn=978-1-84603-323-0 |series=Elite |location=Oxford ; New York}}</ref>
* {{Flag|El Salvador}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alley |first=Roderic |date=2019-03-04 |title=Small arms and light weapons: the disjunction problem |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1570722 |journal=Conflict, Security & Development |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=143–172 |doi=10.1080/14678802.2019.1570722 |issn=1467-8802}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Estonia}}
** Replaced by the [[Heckler & Koch USP]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaitsevägi |first=Eesti |title=Kaitsevägi hävitas vanu püstoleid - Kaitsevägi |url=http://www.mil.ee/et/arhiiv/5365 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20181122005737/http://www.mil.ee/et/arhiiv/5365 |archive-date=2018-11-22 |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=www.mil.ee |language=et}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Finland}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: REVOLVERS & PISTOLS PART 4 |url=http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/PISTOLS4.htm |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=www.jaegerplatoon.net}}</ref>
* {{Flag|France}}<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6556416w |title=Manuel du chef de section d'infanterie... |date=1918 |language=EN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Toulemonde |first=Bernard |date=2020-01-17 |title=Propos iconoclastes sur le système éducatif français, Alain Bouvier , Berger-Levrault, coll. Au fil du débat , 2019, 257 pages, 19 euros |url=https://doi.org/10.3917/admed.164.0135a |journal=Administration & Éducation |volume= 164 |issue=4 |pages=I |doi=10.3917/admed.164.0135a |issn=0222-674X}}</ref>
** Used as the "Automatic pistol 11.4mm (calibre .45)" ({{Langx|fr|Pistolet automatique 11 mm 4 (C.45)}})
* {{Flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}}
* {{Flag|Kingdom of Laos}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Conboy |first1=Kenneth J. |title=The war in Laos 1960 - 75 |last2=McCouaig |first2=Simon |date=1989 |publisher=Osprey |isbn=978-0-85045-938-8 |series=Osprey military Men-at-arms series |location=London}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Luxembourg}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roland |first=Gaul |title=Virtual Museum Tour |url=http://www.mnhm.lu/pageshtml/virtualmuseumtour.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126105021/http://www.mnhm.lu/pageshtml/virtualmuseumtour.php |archive-date=2011-01-26 |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=www.mnhm.lu}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Nazi Germany}}
* {{Flag|Netherlands}}
* {{Flag|New Zealand}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stack |first1=Wayne |title=The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II |last2=O'Sullivan |first2=Barry |last3=Chappell |first3=Mike |date=2013 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-78096-111-8 |series=Men at Arms |location=Botley, Oxford}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Norway}}
* {{Flag|Japan}}
** [[Japan Self-Defense Forces]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redakcja |date=2020-05-17 |title=Premiera karabinka typ 20 |url=https://milmag.pl/premiera-karabinka-typ-20/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=MILMAG |language=pl-PL}}</ref>
** [[Law enforcement in Japan]]
* {{Flag|Panama}}
* {{Flag|Poland}}
** [[Polish Armed Forces in the West]] 
* {{Flag|Russian Empire}}
* {{Flag|South Vietnam}}
* {{Flag|Soviet Union}}
* {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
* {{Flag|United States}}
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=== Non-state actors ===
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* {{Flag|Free French Forces}}
* {{Flag|Shanghai International Settlement}}
** [[Shanghai Municipal Police]]
* {{Flag|Viet Cong}}
** Crude copies<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Ian |date=2012-10-31 |title=Viet Cong 1911 Copy |url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/viet-cong-1911-copy/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=www.forgottenweapons.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and captured pistols used
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|File:M1911 Pistol Users.png
|A map with M1911 users in blue and former users in red

|File:Smith&WessonSW1911.JPG
|A basic version of Smith & Wesson's SW1911 with user-installed Pachmayr grips

|File:Fm rosarina.JPG
|An Argentine Model 1927 pistol
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