The unmitigated gall! Although, seriously, it's a slick little thing for the price point. I sort've wish they'd have used a swappable thumb safety instead of an ambi (but the market wants ambis). And I think that the "911" branding might be a bit iffy in front of a jury.

But it is, for all purposes, a smaller version of their excellent EMP for significantly less than the EMP's $850-$1050 street price. And that's not a bad thing. I think in a pistol like that, most people would be better-served with the .380 than the 9mm.

My only beef with it is the capacity--6/7+1. But that's mostly because my state has a 10-shot limit, so my impulse is always that a gun should be either super-tiny-rinky-dinky pocket-size, have a 10-round magazine, or be a J-frame.

All that said (more than I intended, sorry) Springfield manages to bring more new guns to market than Taurus, and fewer whacky ones. Good for them.