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Originally Posted by TTSH
I still don't buy that new narrative that today's gun buyers are a vastly different breed of simple commodity self-defense appliance buyers, but maybe that's just my advanced age and "behind enemy lines" location talking. 
I will, however, add this to the discussion: .40 pistol sales must be in a death spiral of sorts because I'm seeing giveaway prices on all sorts of .40 pistols, modern plastic fantastics and high-quality all-metal pistols (new and used) as well.  Just this past week I was stunned on what I could buy for cheap if only I was willing to add more .40's to the arsenal. 
But for the same reason they are selling for cheap, I am staying away from them for now. I really like my full-size .40's and I shoot them well... but if the market for them is crashing, I'm not inclined to buy any more.  |
I agree with your observations and have seen the same locally on 40's. Never having had a pistol in 40 before I took advantage of this change and got an M&P 40 and also purchased the S&W 357Sig barrel for it for a song. Now I have two new calibers to play with at the range, and who knows I may even like one of them enough to reconsider my EDC.
As for the Shield prices dropping - election, excess inventory, and the likelihood of a v2.0 Shield all are likely factors from what I can tell. While the Shield has been very popular, it is getting "old" for a polymer gun and the M&P 2.0 shows that S&W is willing to update a proven design. We shall see what the next few months bring for the Shield though.