Shield recall

Mine was made June 2013 and good to go. I mentioned in posts before that I was able to go through some before I found a trigger that didn't feel like total ****. Guess it paid off and/or I got lucky. Hate to have to break my record of never having had to send a gun back to S&W for repair.

Word of warning people if you don't know already... If you have installed aftermarket parts on your gun like Apex they WILL BE GONE when you get the gun back from S&W service. Put your old parts back in before sending in any gun. About the only exception would be sights and maybe a barrel (would not risk that either)
 
"Smith & Wesson has identified a condition where the trigger bar pin could damage the lower trigger..."

I've recently put the Apex kit in both our Shields. So I'm familiar with the mechanics of the trigger and how it attaches to the trigger bar. And I am assuming the trigger bar pin is what drives out the slave pin that comes with the kits.

For the life of me I cannot see how the trigger bar pin can possibly damage the lower trigger. Ever.

And both ours are fine. But the fact that I cannot understand how one can affect the other, thus cannot see if this issue is 'developing', is bugging me. Am I missing something?
 
yanici said:
You'd have to drop it on its trigger. The firing pin block needs to be depressed by the trigger bar and that only can happen if the trigger is pulled back.
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Not so. The little trigger safety is designed to prevent inertia firing if the pistol is dropped on its rear, just the same as the firing pin safety is designed to prevent inertia firing if the pistol is dropped on the muzzle. Remember, if the trigger goes to the rear by ANY means, the firing pin safety is deactivated.

See post #3 in this thread:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-pistols/329404-trigger-really-safety.html
 
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My 1/24/13 build checked out ok

I do notice as one other poster mentioned that the pin on the left side sticks out like less than a millimeter more than on the right. Truth be told if he didn't mention it I probably would not have even noticed at all


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OMG, if it's not working like it should, send it in! :rolleyes:

Sometimes people make it seem like a 1lb trigger with a fully cocked hammer/striker with no safeties is fine as long as nothing get's in the trigger guard. That's not the case with the Shield, but if something is not functioning the way it should, get it fixed for free! Who knows, maybe they'll throw in a magazine or something also.

Those tabs on any poly pistol are drop safeties that prevent the trigger from going reward if it falls on it's back, period.
 
Just checked mine, made March 2013. Seemed to work fine as designed, but I'm thinking this thread might make a good sticky.
 
No thanks, ours work perfect.

Plus its a drop safety feature. At least u know it'll still fire, even if it did suffer from this. lol

Of course if u have a tendency to drop ur weapon all the time. I would highly advise u send it back and have it fixed. :D

And once again, its a SAFETY ALERT not a RECALL. So there is a HUGE difference between these 2. Chances are less of these are affected than the mag drop issue was.
 
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Please keep this in mind..'Nuf Said..
Thank you
 
shawn mccarver said:
Not so. The little trigger safety is designed to prevent inertia firing if the pistol is dropped on its rear, just the same as the firing pin safety is designed to prevent inertia firing if the pistol is dropped on the muzzle. Remember, if the trigger goes to the rear by ANY means, the firing pin safety is deactivated.

See post #3 in this thread:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-pistols/329404-trigger-really-safety.html
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interesting post, but I still don't buy it. The mass of the trigger bar and trigger and any other part involved that would in theory keep moving towards the rear once the pistol frame and slide stopped upon impact with the ground is so small that it would require a force many many times that of gravity to overcome the resistance that we know of as trigger pull weight. Given a 5 pound trigger pull and assuming the total mass of the trigger bar and moving parts is 100 grams, it would take an instantaneous force roughly 22 times that of gravity to offset the trigger pull weight. The trigger and trigger bar don't weight that much, this still ignores that the same force would actually be acting on all other internal parts and would likely increase trigger pull (think large force applied perpendicular to direction of travel of striker block making it more difficult to move it out of the way), and the applied force wouldn't be instantaneous but would be spread out over the time it takes for the trigger and bar to travel (think catching an egg vs. letting it hit your stationary hand. the egg has the same inertia but the force applied to it and the results are not the same). The time factor alone would increase the actual force needed beyond the 22g's by a great deal. It's too far fetched, the physics just don't back it up that this is even possible.
 
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