Originally Posted by GaryS

I've done some more reading on this version and while it's not for me, I can see the market that S&W is looking at.

There are people who want to own and carry for self defense. They are not "gunnies", so they don't care about metal versus plastic, old S&W versus new S&W, and you're not likely to run into them at a gun show.

They want a soft shooting gun with an easy to cycle slide that they can carry for self defense.

Or maybe the buyer is a "gun guy", but his wife isn't and only wants a gun to carry for self defense.

They don't want to pay over a thousand dollars for a 1911 that will scare them every time it goes bang.

We might laugh at those guns and their owners, but S&W (as well as other companies) aren't. It's a market with a lot of potential.