Greetings, I recently purchased the M&P Compact .40 and love it. However I have found an issue with it and I am trying to find out if it's by design or if its broken.
Here is the issue,
With the gun unload, slide forward if you try to insert a load magazine it goes about 3/4 into the gun and stops. I thought maybe the magazine was damaged to I tried a second one and got the same result. I unloaded one of the magazines so it was empty and try to insert it in the gun it slid in and locked in place.
Next I removed the empty magazine pulled the slide back and lock it in place the loaded magazine then will insert properly and lock in place. I release the slide it chambers a round, at this point I can eject the magazine and re-insert it without a problem.
From all my testing it appears that you can only load this gun if a round is already chambered or if the slide in locked back. Being prior military and with LE background I have used many different semi autos and never seen one act this way. It could be a safety issue as well, in a fire fight if the slide was to fail and not lock back when the last round is fired it would prevent the user front inserting another loaded magazine.
Has anyone seen this any comments would be welcomed.
Regards
Brian