I had considered the G26 as a carry gun but I've read several incidents lately about folks having problems with the newly designed recoil spring and how the larger spring has in several incidents, over ridden or jumped the flange and caused malfunctions. You don't need that in a carry pistol. It shoots well and I loved it but, that problem alone kind of swayed me from the sub compacts Glock has out with the dual recoil spring.

I think all in all, I'd feel better about carrying a Smith in that they are safer-at least to me. A live round in a Glock only required something pulls the trigger and it goes bang. With the Smith's, you have a decocker/manual safety as well as magazine release in the even someone tries to wrestle it from your hand, they may not be able to figure out how to get it to fire. With the Glock, they only have to squeeze the trigger.

When I said sub compact, I guess I was thinking how it was smaller than the 4566 which is smaller than the 4506.