Posted on 04/26/2021 1:54:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The 9EZ. Thanks. I didn’t even know about that feature.
There are also spring kits for some pistols. I’m about to put one in for a woman and will see if that helps.
I’ve seen a number of those that have been converted with spring kits. It often has deleterious effects on reliability, or you have to use light loads.
The 9EZ is a follow on to the .380 Shield EZ:
https://www.range365.com/smith-wesson-mp380-shield-ez-pistol-review/
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They’re more often 8-10 rounders these days, actually. From https://www.ballisticmag.com/2020/06/26/highest-selling-guns-2020-nssf/ - which is the last data I’ve seen posted; below is their magazine capacity without one in the chamber.
Top 10 Semi-Auto Pistols (Under Age 50)
Sig Sauer P320 - 17 rounds
Glock G19 - 15 rounds
Springfield Hellcat - microcompact class, 11 rounds
Sig Sauer P365 Nitron Micro-Compact - 10 rounds
Beretta M9A3 - 15 rounds
Smith & Wesson M&P9 Shield - microcompact, 7 or 8 rounds
Springfield XD(M) - 13-20 rounds, depending on version
Glock G19 GEN4 - 15 rounds
Glock G43 - 6 rounds
Beretta 92FS - 15 rounds
Top 10 Semi-Auto Pistols (Ages 50-99)
Sig Sauer P320 - 17 rounds
Springfield Hellcat - 11 rounds
Smith & Wesson M&P9 Shield - 7-8 rounds
Glock G19 - 15 rounds
Sig Sauer P365 Nitron Micro-Compact - 10 rounds
Kimber Stainless II - 8 rounds
Ruger Ruger-57 - 20 rounds
Beretta 92FS - 15 rounds
Beretta M9A3 - 15 rounds
KEL-TEC PMR-30 - 30 rounds
Most of what’s being sold right now has more than “6 or 7” - which bears out what my local ranges/stores are telling me. The new high-capacity microcompacts are the current hotness far and away.
However there are several reasons I don't recommend pistols and do recommend small, hammerless revolvers in some circumstances.
(1) No safety
(2) No magazine
(3) No magazine disconnect safety
(4) Entirely one hand retrieval and use, if necessary
(5) Lower likelyhood of opponent getting a hand on the weapon
(6) Ease of training and recall of training.
I personally use a 10MM Glock for which I handload combat ammunition.
I was talking about Minnesoetans...ya know?...jesse the nobody and that lot?!
I never got the no safety on my Glock. I traded for it, so it wasn’t a show stopper, but now I have it, I HATE it! How hard is it to put a safety latch on it?
I’ll address those:
1. You can get autos with no external safety levers as well - in fact that type is now the most common.
2. You still have a cylinder to reload on a revolver, which is worse. And while you’re using it with ammo in it, it makes no difference.
3. Mag disconnect safeties are not present in a lot of modern automatics, or can be removed easily.
4. Um, how do you need more than one hand to retrieve and use something like a Glock 9mm? In fact, smaller people are more likely to need two hands to hang on to a small revolver in a major caliber because there is zero recoil mitigation.
5. Not proven. Some semiautos are the same size or smaller than a snubbie revolver and they don’t have nice flanges and grooves on the side for someone to grab and take the gun away, unlike the revolver.
6. Also not proven at all. I have been present at classes where people brought their newly purchased little snubby with them and they had major problems training up on it, let alone hitting anything because of the miserable sights most snubbies have. They took to the class-provided Glock 19s in 9mm a lot faster. Add to that the fact that most snubbies are unpleasant to shoot in a major caliber (not big bore, just common ‘adequate self defense’ calibers) and their ammo invariably costs more and you’ll get someone with a snubbie that doesn’t ever practice with the weapon and just carries it around as a sort of magic talisman. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt watching them.
See that little lever in the trigger that sticks out? It’s the safety. You automatically disengage it when you touch the trigger.
Also, an awful lot of people have gotten dead from external safeties that stuck on or that they forgot to turn off.
Increasingly pistols do not come with external safeties (other than things like passive grip safeties).
Do you also bemoan the fact that your car no longer requires a hand crank to start, or that large airliners don’t use propellers or that your television no longer uses vacuum tubes?
Also interesting that you advocate a one size fits all solution for all those different individuals.
And, of course, the problem of having only one hand available when your pistol does not have a round chambered or the rare case of a misfire. Individuals with less training, experience or practice may have such an occurrence.
I live in a relatively homogeneous, low crime, Trump area and feel adequately armed to pump gas or go grocery shopping while carrying a J frame and a couple speed loaders.
Of course, I still carry other stuff in by backpack, readily at hand in the vehicle.
If I have to be in an iffy part of Pittsburgh, that's a different story.
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