I've got a M&P9c with a Viridian CTL weaponlight that I need to find a holster for. I'm having a heck of a time finding any weaponlight-able 9c holsters period and the few that are offered don't list compatibility with the CTL. Does anyone know of something I'm missing?

For kydex, it'll be a wait but I'd recommend giving JM Kydex a call. The 9c and light aren't listed as an option, but he does custom orders also.

Their work is top notch and the lead time is reflective of that.

This is something that comes up pretty frequently.

There are hundreds and hundreds of different handgun models on the market, and dozens more new models are introduced every year.

There are also hundreds of different after-market accessories, and more new ones all the time.

I offer 12 holster designs, with or without 4 common options, in 4 finish colors, left-hand and right-hand, for 145 different handguns. That results in about 70,000 possible variations and requires thousands of patterns in file, each of which represents several hours of work bringing to production form. Every time a new handgun is introduced people start requesting holsters for it, and I have to decide whether or not the demand warrants investing in another pistol, or waiting a year or two to see if that model gains sufficient market share that someone starts making "dummy guns" (most are never offered as dummies).

If I were to start offering holsters for handguns with mounted tactical lights, laser sights, etc, etc, etc, I would have to invest a huge amount of money to have all of the various accessories on hand for patterning and forming the holsters. I would also have to commit about 10 to 20 hours to adapting each holster design to each handgun/accessory package and producing the patterns for production. While there are quite a few folks out there using such things, I think the demand for any particular pistol/accessory package will be pretty limited, and then very few people would want the same holster designs.

Of course, as soon as I invested a few hundred thousand on all these goodies the manufacturers would bring out something else that would make everything I have obsolete in short order.

I can think of better ways to go broke.

By the way, can anyone explain to me the logic in purchasing a "compact" handgun model, then adding bulky accessories to it? I can understand why a person wants "compact" (easier and more comfortable to carry and keep concealed), but hanging lights or lasers or MP3 players on the M&P9C strikes me as defeating the original purpose.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to complain about customers wanting something that works well for them in this thread. Simply not saying anything would have been a much better decision for you and your business. Amazingly enough, I own a business that faces the same challenges as yours does in terms of trying to supply things to fit all the possible combinations of parts a customer could want to work with. I don't complain about it on the forums. If a customer on the forums complains about no one offering a solution to fit their setup, I say nothing. If someone comes to me personally and asks why I'm not offering something for them, I tell them to go find 50 other guys who want the exact same thing and I'll do a custom run for them. About 10% of the time, they actually do manage to get a group buy together and everyone is happy and I make money.

As to why people want to put "bulky" things on a 9c, well, it isn't that compact to begin with and, if you bothered to look at the accessories being talked about, they aren't bulky. The CTL I'm looking to fit is flush to the end of the muzzle and fills down to about the trigger guard. It makes the gun no larger and barely heavier.

As far as why I want the light... I like to know I'm shooting at a bad guy and not my wife in the middle of the night.