It is like how do you like your steak cooked? We all have different opinions about what we want in a gun, and I am not arguing with your opinion, except that I have not found a revolver with a better trigger pull than a striker fired handgun. I have a Shield 40 and a LC9. For accuracy shooting, taking slow accurate aiming, I shoot both equally well. But for fast shooting the Shield's trigger allows me much faster on target shots. The LC9s length is 1/8 inch shorter and 1/8 inch shorter in height, and the LC9s weighs 3 ounces less, but the trigger pull and reset is longer on the LC9s.
You like the bigger safety lever and how it locks the slide, LCI indicator, and magazine safety. No problem with those from me, but many gun owners would not want any of those on their guns. I like the that the Shield allows me to unload the gun with the safety locked on. But if you use the LC9 for self defense, with the mag safety, it makes for an unsafe carry gun. I am retired LEO and have seen many instances of magazines being partially dropped, without the officer being aware of it. If that would happen to your LC9 with the magazine safety, should you need to get off a fast SD shot, you would pull the gun, point/aim and pull the trigger. The trigger would not move, as the magazine safety prevented the trigger from moving because the mag partially dropped out. How long does it take you to realize this, push the magazine fully in, and start all over again? That can be the difference between life and death.
The first thing I did with my SD LC9, was disconnect the magazine safety. If my magazine ever partially drops out, at least it would fire one shot, as opposed to none. I argue the sense of a magazine safety on a gun, which is only required in a few states, including highly populated California. Is someone leaving their gun loaded with a round in the chamber, without the magazine, and letting it lay around where someone may get to it? Common gun safety states the gun will be fully unloaded and locked up. Not only unloaded but locked with proper safety device, if it is not in a secure location (safe). There is never an instance of the magazine safety eliminating a possible incident, that proper gun safety would not have also eliminated that incident. The rule is treat every gun as loaded, until positive double checking proves the gun is unloaded and safe to handle.
Bob
