Found this link from a forum to the other forum about an out of battery issue with the Shield. Can anyone make their Shield do what's in the link? First post has a video of it BTW.
ETA: To keep in-line with forum rules, I have deleted the link but I think enough people know what the issue is by now.
Kind of makes me glad I'm on the waiting list for the second batch.
ETA: Members at the other forum I got the link from have the same thing happen to them so it seems it's not just a few of them. Not sure how much of an issue this is but its something S&W should be made aware of.
Now, let's not all let this get out of hand.
First, it has been taught by Massad Ayoob and others for decades that when holstering, you put your thumb over the hammer or the back of the slide to prevent the pistol from opening while holstering.
Secondly, this "condition" can be manipulated to occur on almost any pistol.
Thirdly, in the video shown by the seemingly hapless novice on the other site, he can, without any effort correct the very condition he complains of by merely closing the slide, and without any undue effort, it appears. I am far more concerned about him blowing a hole in his own hand since he repeatedly violates Rule 2 (never point the pistol at anything you do not wish to destroy) and also demonstrates to all that a proper press-check using the slide grasping fish scale grooves is apparently beyond his training at this point.
Fourthly, I believe he said this occurred while in his pocket. Huh? It is unclear if it "just happened," while in his pocket, or upon holstering, or when he "bumped" the pistol. Everyone knows you do NOT EVER re-holster into a pocket holster while the holster is in the pocket. You take out the holster, insert the pistol, and while re-holstering, you make sure the slide does not come out of batter by putting your thumb over the back of the slide or hammer. Then, you put pistol and holster into your pocket as a unit.
Fifthly, if this gent's pocket holster is that tight, he either needs to UNLOAD and do between 50 and 100 forceful insertions and withdrawals from the holster; or, if it his holster is still too tight, then into the trash it goes and he should buy a decent pocket holster.
Finally, this fellow needs to pipe down along with the minions that have followed him on that "other" site and stop referring to this as a "design error" or defective condition. I am sure that these "wanna-be pistol designers" have much experience in the design of a pistol, but there seems to be a lack of ability to show it since there is much hand-wringing in trying to figure out the cause of this "condition" these birds have identified as a condition that S&W needs to be aware of. It is what it is - a condition that for the most part can be manipulated on many different makes and models of pistols.
There is a reason that you do not "ride the slide" when loading a round. Let it go full speed so the slide will not be left partially open. There is just no reason to intentionally put the pistol in this condition and then claim it is a defect. Now, if a little bump on the back of the slide with the open hand will not cause it to close, then fine, send it back. But, as this gent demonstrates in his video, he can at once create the condition he complains of and then immediately correct it. S&W should get kudos for having a safe enough pistol that this guy does not blow his hand off during his little video.
There is no need to get oxygen. Relax and enjoy your S&W Shield.
Mine is 100% and I am not worried at all that it can be manipulated into doing exactly what a great number of other pistols can be manipulated into doing.
& if S&W has something to say they will let us know, until then just enjoy our possible handgun of the year!
Hopefully if you read my individual posts, I wasn't trying to start a storm of nonsense. 
. I wont pay anymore for a defective SHIELD
