My wife and my carry guns are 3953's with 6946's as backup. I used a 5943 yesterday for the shoot portion of the South Carolina CCW class. Mine had no malfunctions with a good grouping. Others on the line had terrible groups and/or malfunctions; many for one person. I don't know how or why you'd carry a gun that had 5-7 malfunctions out of a 50 round course of fire. Our 3rd gens are totally reliable for us so far. Also saw really small/light guns that that had terrible groups, even at 3 yds. Either the owners couldn't shoot or these guns are lousy for CCW if you actually have to shoot them.