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Originally Posted by skipper49
First off, congrats to you, M5Rahul on your new pistol.
Completely unrelated to the OP, but I believe most any
experienced trainer is going to validate misterX's assertions in this thread. We might not like it, but the "danger" is what it is. I believe even S&W, in the back of the manual, agrees with him also. Plus, it states that you shouldn't even chamber a round with your hand over the ports. Kinda tricky on a pistol as small as the Shield.
We're all free(so far) to buy what we want, but we don't need to ignore
potential dangers associated with that choice. Ported pistols make dandy range and "fun" guns though.
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IMO, the ported shield is a "hype" pistol. Meaning the sales were dropping on the shield. So they had to hype it up a little. Just like when they introduced the NS version of the Shield. Sales dropped, so they hyped it up a little more. Watch what happens next. After sales drop again, u will see a NS version of the PC shield......Its S&W idea of making more money off an old design. At least until they come up with something fresh from the drawing bored.
Why do u think they were quick to stop shipping out the factory 9mm barrel to distributers once they learned we were converting the .40 to 9mm. Obviously they knew the barrel would kill their sales on the Shield 9mm.