 FACT: In the scene in which Angel shoots his girlfriend, and the  Wild Bunch is confronted by the Gen. Mapaches men, Commander Mohr  asks them about their weapons, and informs them that they are U.S.  Army weapons, and cannot be owned by civilians. In this scene, the  only U.S. Army weapons which they possess are M1911 Colt pistols,  which in fact had been sold commercially starting in 1911.