Removing the mag disconnector?

[peter2772000]

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[peter2772000]

Maybe woulda helped if I mentioned that the pistol in question is a M&P in .40? LOL

 

[squidsix]

Rear sight drifts out left to right, and then remove the white plastic plunger and spring, and re-install sight.
Easy.

 

[handgunner356]

But not on the M&Ps'. On them it's in the sear block. Here's a link here showing how to do it, actually easier than the 3rd generation guns.

http://www.burwellgunsmithing.com/M&P2.htm

 

[squidsix]

Very cool. I didn't realize it had changed. Thanks
Steve

 

[HEADKNOCKER]

I'd be interested in how this would be done on a 3rd gen s&w auto myself..
Gary

 

[handgunner356]

Gary, Just like Squidsix said earlier, drift the rear sight out and remove the nylon plunger and spring. Leave the steel one it's the firing pin safety.

 

[High Lord Gomer]

Would that also work for a 2nd gen S&W auto?

 

[High Lord Gomer]

To answer my own question for anyone else that might be interested...

On my 2nd gen, I drifted the rear sight out of the way to the right and exposed the spring and plunger on the left side. Both left and right are steel on mine, but I removed the one on the left to defeat the mag safety.

 

[Sargeyork]

One Question, WHY?

 

[handgunner356]

Can't answer for everyone, but for me I use my guns in combat matches that require you dry fire a empty gun at the end of your string. It's much easier to do without the mag safety. Other than a Browning Hi-Power(which the mag safety adds to trigger pull) no other brand of gun I own has a mag safety. The only real safety is between ones ears.

 

[Sargeyork]

I shoot in 3 Gun and IDPA matches and all you have to do is tell the RO at the first stage you shoot with him that you have a smith third gen that will not shoot without a mag in and that even with an empty mag inserted it will keep firing on an empty chamber with a DA pull. Most knowledgable and experienced RO's know this and if they don't you just educated them. I have never had a problem, Knowledged is power, Ignorance is not Bliss. I can't think of a good reason to disconnect this except people who think they know better than the engineers and design staff at S&W. Same thing with guys who buy a new motorcycle and put on LOUD pipes and wonder why the bike doesn't run right anymore, maybe something like the design of the exhaust was integral to the bike running right, DUH!!!!

 

[handgunner356]

Why do some people get DAOs' instead of SA, It's all personal choice. S&W makes guns both ways so I wouldn't say it was needed to make the gun work right or not. Even law enforcement goes each way on their issue guns.

 

[High Lord Gomer]

Originally posted by Sargeyork:
I shoot in 3 Gun and IDPA matches and all you have to do is tell the RO at the first stage you shoot with him that you have a smith third gen that will not shoot without a mag in and that even with an empty mag inserted it will keep firing on an empty chamber with a DA pull.

So, do they tell you it is ok to just de-cock it and re-holster? If so, they shouldn't be ROing. The whole point of pulling the trigger on a supposedly empty chamber is to have yet another verification that it is indeed empty.

It is not about "knowing better than the engineers", it is about the fact that it is a "feature" of the pistol that I do not need and one that is bothersome. The mag safety doesn't make the gun any safer for me and I prefer not to carry around an empty mag so I can pull the trigger at the end of a stage.

I don't get the analogy of the loud pipes because the gun still runs the same with or without the mag safety, it is NOT integral to the gun running right.

 

[eddieb]

What???? You mean modify your weapon? Don't you realize that if you're involved in a shooting, a prosecutor will through you in jail for life, put your wife and kids into slavery, burn your house down, and eat your dog. My God, man, what are you thinking?