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the slide release was DESIGNED to release the slide.
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It would seem so. If the object were just a slide stop, there would seemingly be no need for the the hump on the lever which releases the slide....it would still work as a
stop to allow for mag changes, without that little hump. If it was not intended to be used, would John Browning have put it there? I pose that question because of how everything about the original 1911 seemed so well thought-out... consider how the rounded magazine floor plate perfectly fits the radius of the barrel bushing/recoil spring plug, allowing it to be used as a take-down tool. And, how the thickness of the stock screws matched the thickness of the floor-plate allowing the magazine to be used to remove the stocks. Those things support the idea that the slide stop release was intended to by used, or it would not be there.