onetuza
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I just sent this text in an email to Waltheramerica.
Unless I'm missing something, I think it's worth telling people about.
Unless I'm missing something, I think it's worth telling people about.
"I am an extremely pleased owner of a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm (full size) for home defense.
I am a not-so-pleased owner of a Kel-tec PF-9 for concealed carry and thus remain in the market for an upgrade.
I was at a gun show today looking at the M&P 9C wishing it were only thinner. If it were, I'd have bought one on the spot!
I then checked out the new Walther PPS 9mm, and though not crazy about it's blocky looks (one reason I hate Glocks), thought I had found my replacement for the Kel-tec.
Fortunately for me, (unfortunately for you), there was one booth of the three booths at the show offing the PPS, that actually had a magazine in the gun.
I tried it out and instantly my hopes were dashed to bits. What on earth possessed you to abandon the magazine/gun butt relationship that appears to be the norm on all your other semi-auto pistols, and extend the magazine shoe all the way to the rear of the backstrap?
Your trigger guard split mag release is quirky enough, and I could have adjusted to it, but I could not find a way to get the magazine to drop free of the gun when the release is pressed, (something that could cause a fatal delay in a gunfight). Why wouldn't it drop free? Because it hangs up on the bottom of my palm which is gripping the back of the magazine shoe along with the backstrap.
Please tell me you are working on a redesign. I feel bad for people buying the guns that are on display without magazines in them. They will be rudely awakened when it's too late for a refund, or worse yet, when it's too late to live.
Please keep me informed because I feel this is an otherwise very desirable weapon."
I am a not-so-pleased owner of a Kel-tec PF-9 for concealed carry and thus remain in the market for an upgrade.
I was at a gun show today looking at the M&P 9C wishing it were only thinner. If it were, I'd have bought one on the spot!
I then checked out the new Walther PPS 9mm, and though not crazy about it's blocky looks (one reason I hate Glocks), thought I had found my replacement for the Kel-tec.
Fortunately for me, (unfortunately for you), there was one booth of the three booths at the show offing the PPS, that actually had a magazine in the gun.
I tried it out and instantly my hopes were dashed to bits. What on earth possessed you to abandon the magazine/gun butt relationship that appears to be the norm on all your other semi-auto pistols, and extend the magazine shoe all the way to the rear of the backstrap?
Your trigger guard split mag release is quirky enough, and I could have adjusted to it, but I could not find a way to get the magazine to drop free of the gun when the release is pressed, (something that could cause a fatal delay in a gunfight). Why wouldn't it drop free? Because it hangs up on the bottom of my palm which is gripping the back of the magazine shoe along with the backstrap.
Please tell me you are working on a redesign. I feel bad for people buying the guns that are on display without magazines in them. They will be rudely awakened when it's too late for a refund, or worse yet, when it's too late to live.
Please keep me informed because I feel this is an otherwise very desirable weapon."