Recent content by McQz

Those aren't casting marks. A new locking block has a straight flat bottom edge and the flat rear-facing face is smooth and black. I first noticed the shiny spot in the middle and assumed the dark on the sides was carbon, but when I approached it with a pick - lo and behold the raised part was...

My wife and I are members of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Posse. We provide our own equipment and there are no "loaners." In order to carry another weapon, I would have to wait until the next qualification module as well as provide another pistol at my own expense.

The problem isn't "a gun that might malfunction" but rather the gun I qualified with that is now in Massachusetts being evaluated by S&W for what they identified as a serious problem. The barrel is literally stripping metal from the bottom of the locking block and depositing it on the center of...

I purchased a new M&M9 on October 15, 2016. (This was an emergency purchase because my duty gun had a broken ejector and had to go back to the factory for repair AND it was time to re-qualify.) Everything was going smoothly, even though I was becoming familiar with the new pistol I was able to...