No offense intended in my post either. In fact, so far with the guy I was referring to, I've just been politely correcting him. I have been finding some humor in it, but it's all in fun!
There are some pretty distinct families of guns and sometimes with all the flavors of 1911 I could see some confusion. Heck, a baby eagle is similar to a CZ, some of which (like a 1911) can be carried cocked and locked. I don't know if the baby eagle can be though. I think it's got a decocker that works simlar to the Baretta 92/96 (which scares me in the way it allows the hammer to come down so fast). Also, I'm not sure about the B.E., but I know some CZ's (all, maybe?) use a barrel lug type lock-up, similar to how a 1911 barrel locks up, instead of using the barrel hood area to lock the gun up like so many Sigs and my Taurus PT-111.
Ultimately, the 1911 was one of the first few autoloading pistol designs. A lot of autoloading pistols are based at least in some small way on it or its predecessors.
