S&W 5900 and/or 6900???

6900 alum frame

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Smith_&_Wesson_6900_pistol_series

If you want all steel, be advised the 69-series have aluminum alloy frames.

Is there any other all steel 9mm S&Ws I should look at?

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The 5906 is the most common, and will be the cheapest because it was a popular LE gun. Don't confuse it with a 5903 or 04 or, which are also alloy-framed. There was also a 5946, which is a DAO action with no safety, not DA/SA with a slide-mounted safety like the others. You might look for a 3906, which is a single-stack (9+1 round) magazine but may fit your hand better, or a model from the previous generation (639 or 659). All of these also have magazine disconnect "safeties."

Get a 5906 - you will be very pleased with it.

I love my 5906, I'm on my 2nd one (foolishly sold the first). The 3906 is an all-steel single-stack 9mm, I've heard good reports on them.

I was just wondering if there was anything I should know about them because I don't know much.

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Yeah, don't buy one. Unless, of course, you can afford several of it's brothers and sisters. The 3rd gens are an addiction. I have 6 at present.

If I could only have one 9mm for life, it'd be my 5906 without a second thought. There are lots of other great combat 9's, but none of them measure up as well, IMO.

I myself am on the hunt for a 5906

Willing to trade a PT92 for it when I find it. Even though I know they sell for about 100 bucks less.

MachIVshooter said:

Yeah, don't buy one. Unless, of course, you can afford several of it's brothers and sisters. The 3rd gens are an addiction. I have 6 at present.

If I could only have one 9mm for life, it'd be my 5906 without a second thought. There are lots of other great combat 9's, but none of them measure up as well, IMO.

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I came to the same conclusion.....lol Funny how they multiply, isn't.

I don't care for the four-digit series.

When I'm not on my two-digit thing, three-digits is the charm.

Its a sickness! There are so many interesting models and lines to collect. In the 59 series there was a 'value line' consisting of basic models in 9mm (910, 915), .40 SW, .45 acp. I just bought a 910. I also would like a CS9, a 5906, and the Holy Grail would be a 1006 sitting neglected in a local pawn or gun store. After that...maybe a 'shorty forty'.....sigh. See what I mean?

I have a police trade in 5903 with the square trigger guard that I got from Buds. It is very reliable and as accurate as I can shoot it. I'm thinking a 3913 might be next although I held a 4513TSW at the LGS that fit my hand extremely well.

lol Funny how they multiply, isn't.

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Funny? More like expensive. lol.

Is that a CS .45 I see? Or a CS9?

Is that a CS .45 I see? Or a CS9?

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