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As I'm sure it was said before me, "1911" is not a brand so you can't really say "1911 sales are slow". However, over the past 6 months, I have talked to a lot of people at work and in my neighborhood who are buying their first guns. Nearly all of them are buying or bought M&P's or Glocks, with the occasional HK and revolver thrown in for good measure. None of those first time buyer mentioned 1911's. Of course that has more to do with marketing, caliber, friends, salesmen than it does 1911's.
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Let's face it, a 1911 is not a very good first gun. In fact, no handgun is. If you are green about gun handling it's all too easy to point a handgun in an unsafe direction.
A glock as a 1st gun scares the heck out of me as well, an accidental discharge waiting to happen in the hands of a neophyte. At least they are easier to break down and clean than a 1911 though.