Be careful to set the spring and rod back in the notch exactly. I can't believe i was messing up here, but I had a rash of the slide locking back and VERY difficult to return forward. Someone mentioned to be careful about putting the spring and rod back in. I haven't had any trouble since. I can't imagine myself not putting a spring back in right, but maybe that was it.

At one point I did have the barrel in the Shield replaced due to a short leade, but I can't tie that in with the locking back problem


I had a Kel Tec that the spring would jump across the barrel notch and lock up the works. The factory said that was a known problem. They had to disassemble the thing but it works now.

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