Just got finished replying to another question about almost the same thing. I have owned a Springfield Armory EMP for almost 5 years and I love it. It is definitely "NOT" a pocket pistol.
What it is to me, is
1)a full hand grip, ie. your little finger is not hanging out there looking for some place to go,
2)it doesn't "Bite" like some of the smaller pistols. If a pistol is unconformable to shoot you are not likely to do much training with it. If you don't train with it, welllll, you know where I am going.
3)its on the same frame I trained with for years(full size 1911) which means that when needed Muscle Memory kicks in and everything this flows just fine.
Like I informed the other person, I have put at least 1000 rounds down range with my EMP and the only malfunction I had was when I was using Wolf brand ammo. Good, inexpensive ammo, but I found that it shoots dirty.
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