cateye:

Welcome to the board.

I try to resist the "early adopter" syndrome. In cars, computers or firearms, newly introduced products quite frequently are subject to unforseen design issues. I'd prefer that this didn't happen, but just look at the numbers. If 10,000 people have bought S&W Bodyguard .380s and spent three hours each shooting them, that's 30,000 hours of range testing, with 10,000 different grips, shooting stances and ammunition.

I'm reasonably confident that S&W will make the Bodyguard series right. In the meantime, could I recommend a nice little 3913? They worked the bugs out of that one a long time ago.