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    Thumbs up Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Multiple sources telling me my new summer carry piece will be shipping mid-June and costing me no more than the TS model. April fools is over, my wife thinks I haven't bought a gun in a while, and Smith and Wesson listened to their customers.

    Glock, anyone listening over there? Oh right, your correcting your screw ups with a worked over 42…..

    http://www.texashuntingforum.com/for...26P_Shield_(10

    http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread....T-Thumb-Safety!

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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Damnit. I wish they came out with this from the get-go.
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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    I have a Shield and its not like its easy to activate the safety by accident. Why not just leave it off?

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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Uh, cause;
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    Lightbulb Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Quote Originally Posted by IntenseImage View Post
    I have a Shield and its not like its easy to activate the safety by accident. Why not just leave it off?


    I get that; but I have no handguns, except a single pesky 1911 (that never gets carried), that have a manual safety. I don't train with a manual safety, and I don't wanna be fumble fucking with it when I'm potentially defending my life (if I were to activate it, somehow, in the course of carry).

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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Thanks for the heads up, I've been shooting a friends shield in 40 and man is it an is excellent single stack it has been on my short list for a while but now the list is even shorter.
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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Hey that's nice for certain applications but I am of the thought if you don't have time to deactivate a safety...you have already done a lot of things wrong by that point, and the safety is not the problem.

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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Quote Originally Posted by dazeeman View Post
    Hey that's nice for certain applications but I am of the thought if you don't have time to deactivate a safety...you have already done a lot of things wrong by that point, and the safety is not the problem.
    Lucky for you, there is one with a manual safety.

    I politely disagree with your assessment.
    Last edited by FLICK; June 5th, 2014 at 04:39 PM.
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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    Finally!

    Had a chance to get a S&W Shield - for FREE, about a year ago; I turned it down. Did not want one with a thumb safety (and a ridiculously small one at that!).

    I've been saying that if S&W ever came out with one without the thumb safety, I would be all over it. I guess I'll just wait a bit, almost bought a XDs 9mm a couple of days ago - but decided to wait, glad I did.
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    Default Re: Finally! NO thumb safety M&P Shields…..

    My EDC is a Ruger SR9c. I carry it every day with the manual safety off. It's really not that big of a deal.

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