I have rarely seen so many "nabobs of negativity" since the days of Spiro Agnew (not really, just kidding).

Seriously though, one of the bigger local gun shop owners was telling me that a surprisingly large part of his business is first time gun buyers who are not "gun people." He sells a huge number of .22 semi autos to these people, because they actually will shoot them, as opposed to the "real calibers."

He was lamenting that the local sheriff changed the requirements for our unrestricted CCW course to require center fire calibers (I don't think he minded selling them additional guns). Now he can sell them this pistol and kill two birds with one stone.

There are a lot of semi informed people out there, who are afraid to carry any pistol that doesn't have multiple safeties, absolutely refuse to carry any striker fired pistol - "it might go off!"

When you factor in the people that actually NEED the features of this pistol, you have to admit S&W hit a home run with this one

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Tony