M&P Shield now available w/o thumb safety.

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Choice is good...either configuration wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
The Shield is the best of the latest single stack sub-compacts IMO.
I still throw the G27 in the rotation but the Shield just carries better.
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With a trigger as light and short throw as my Shield, I like having the safety, but you don't have to use it if you don't like it.

Did they change the trigger on the guns with no safety?
 
I wish they had rolled this out before investing in the XDs platform. After feeling it out I chose the backstrap safety over the thumb safety, even though I preferred the ergonomics of the shield. That thumb safety just felt too small to use and too large to ignore.
 
This is straight off S&Ws website. http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_831056_-1_780153_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

Yesterday I went to the local gun show and sold an old friend, my first pistol, a S&W 459 that had outlived it's usefulness to me with the intention of buying a Shield for a back up gun. Thankfully I ran out of time and never made the purchase. I was going back today to make the buy and decided to look at Smith's website one more time and found the new info there. Looks like I will pocket the cash and wait for the new batch to hit the shelves. Woo Hoo!

PS - Dear Glaston, watch as even more sales go elsewhere. :neener:
 
Glock can't make enough guns to keep up with current demand. I doubt he's losing any sleep over this.
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Ah, I see. I guess that explains why he recently launched a new pistol and continues to advertise. Thanks for clearing that up.

Someone once asked an old Texas rancher how much land was enough. He thought for a moment and replied, "I only want the land that touches mine."
 
Somebody tell The Yankee Marshal!.....

The Youtuber; The Yankee Marshal rails against the S&W Shields because of the safety lever. :rolleyes:
I wasn't a fan of the model since it did not have a ambi style or at least a model you could convert like a magazine release. As a left handed gunner, I like to flip the controls over or get ambi controls when available. ;)

Many cadre & instructors advise new CCW license holders to buy sidearms that do not have manual safety levers. I see the merits of it for speed & practical reasons but a choice is always good.

If Smith & Wesson redesigns these Shields & offers gun owners a choice, I bet they will sell a pile of the non-safety type M&P Shields.
Even I may get one, if they retail for $365-400.00 USD like a few models I've seen in my area(big sales or LE officer/first responder price). :D

Rusty
 
I have no problem with the Shield's thumb safety. My thumb falls right to it, and if it bothers, leave it off. It only sticks out a fraction of an inch, which in my case isn't a problem either. I leave it on normally.

Russellc
 
9x19mm?....

The Smith & Wesson links just say the new format is in 9x19mm. :confused:
Id lean towards a .40S&W for the slight power increase but a 9mm M&P might make more sense; better recoil control for one handed/wounded shooting, better feeding-cycles with the shorter barrel/slide, more rounds, less blast/noise.

Rusty
 
Many cadre & instructors advise new CCW license holders to buy sidearms that do not have manual safety levers. I see the merits of it for speed & practical reasons but a choice is always good.
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Does that mean that a 1911 is bad for CCW????;)
 
Maybe it's just because I got started on the 1911 platform, but I love the fact that it has a safety. As a force of habit/training, my thumb falls on the safety and takes it off as I draw. Never been in a dynamic situation, knock on wood, but to each his own I guess.
 
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Maybe it's just because I got started on the 1911 platform, but I love the fact that it has a safety. As a force of habit/training, my thumb falls on the safety and takes it off as I draw. Never been in a dynamic situation, knock on wood, but to each his own I guess.
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^^^I didn't begin with a 1911 but with a gun with a safety nonetheless. Part of my draw routine. I think I'd be confused without it.
 
Dang it! I put off getting a Shield because of the safety. Waiting to see if they'd omit it. I finally broke down and bought one a couple months ago. Figures!
Oh well. I've got the muscle memory from 1911's. It's easy and consistent to sweep it off, on the draw. Still in principal I am in the "no thumb switch" for an SD gun, camp.
 
I'm surprised/disappointed that they didn't omit the thumb safety on the new M&P version of the Bodyguard. That trigger is a safety device in and of itself.
 
The shield has just went from a really good ccw to a great ccw. The shield might be the best ccw on the market IMHO
 
Okay, so I honestly have to ask. For the people that think eliminating the safety improved the Shield, why?

I've had one for a long time now and simply never used the safety. I have never found the safety accidentally on despite being a daily carry piece.

Am I missing something?
 
It is so small, recessed, and requires a pretty good push to operate.... as a guy who doesn't do safeties, I didn't consider it an issue, just leave it off. It doesn't seem like it could really be flipped on by accident.

Also I believe it is pretty easy to remove the entire lever from the rear block if you want.
 
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