Mauserguy
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I carry an LC9 most days. I love the form factor. It’s a 9MM that I can drop in my pocket. Also, I feel it’s a very safe gun for pocket carry. It’s just not going to go off unless you really try. Having said all that, I hate certain aspects of the gun. They are:
1. The trigger. The gun is so thin and the trigger so long that my skinny fingers cause me to almost have to shift my hold on the gun to get it to the trigger to the release point. The reset is almost all the way forward too, so you can’t really stage the trigger. It’s hard to shoot accurately fast and in a defensive incident you just can’t afford to take your time. It can be an accurate little gun if you take your time, but not in fast shooting.
2. The magazine disconnect. I’m not twelve years old. I don’t need that feature. I’d try to remove it, but since I’m in California I don’t want to have a modified safety device on my carry gun lest it comes under scrutiny.
3. Mag Drops! When I first got the gun it would often drop mags in recoil. Given the magazine disconnect, this would render the arm inoperable. After a fair amount of fiddling, I took the mag release button to my bench grinder and removed about an eighth of an inch of material from the top of the button. That remedied the problem.
With all of the problems noted above, I may replace the gun when my CCW renews. The problem is that I’m in California and the guns I like, with the features I would choose, are hard to find here. We’ve got a handgun ban underway, the infamous roster, and some of the best guns on the market are just not available to use out here. I’d look at an LC9S, but they will never be available here, so Oh Well…
Mauserguy
1. The trigger. The gun is so thin and the trigger so long that my skinny fingers cause me to almost have to shift my hold on the gun to get it to the trigger to the release point. The reset is almost all the way forward too, so you can’t really stage the trigger. It’s hard to shoot accurately fast and in a defensive incident you just can’t afford to take your time. It can be an accurate little gun if you take your time, but not in fast shooting.
2. The magazine disconnect. I’m not twelve years old. I don’t need that feature. I’d try to remove it, but since I’m in California I don’t want to have a modified safety device on my carry gun lest it comes under scrutiny.
3. Mag Drops! When I first got the gun it would often drop mags in recoil. Given the magazine disconnect, this would render the arm inoperable. After a fair amount of fiddling, I took the mag release button to my bench grinder and removed about an eighth of an inch of material from the top of the button. That remedied the problem.
With all of the problems noted above, I may replace the gun when my CCW renews. The problem is that I’m in California and the guns I like, with the features I would choose, are hard to find here. We’ve got a handgun ban underway, the infamous roster, and some of the best guns on the market are just not available to use out here. I’d look at an LC9S, but they will never be available here, so Oh Well…
Mauserguy