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Time for a less nice one. This is the Double Eagle, this was one of Colt's many ill fated attempts at trying to catch up with the market of service pistols that they had neglected, hoping to just keep selling 1911s forever.
What this is essentially, is a new frame for a 1911 slide, because of course Colt would do that. Conceptually, this isn't actually a terrible idea, it has a double-action/single-action trigger and a decocker, but the execution comes off as rather lackluster, because it still just uses normal single stack 1911 magazines, which even with 9mm Luger gives you like 10+1 or so, which wouldn't be bad if it was meant specifically for civilian commercial sales during the 1994-2004 AWB, but it wasn't, the pistol hit the market in like 1987. This thing would not be able to compete with the Glock 17, Beretta 92, Smith & Wesson 5906, or the Ruger P90.
The Colt Double Eagle has a reputation for the trigger breaking, which they certainly would do on earlier production models, though later production ones were less fragile, people weren't interested in buying it, and they eventually gave up on it.
If you look at the right side of the pistol, you will see an odd extension on the grip panel, under there is where the trigger mechanics are, with no kind of cover plate or anything, they're just straight under there, and a common experience when disassembling these pistols and taking off the grip was for springs to come sproinging out of there, so hope you saw where they landed, and that you know how to put it back together.