#Smith and wesson mp45 reviews manual#
#Smith and wesson mp45 reviews series#

Some have a manual thumb safety (most donвЂ™t), while all have a loaded chamber indicator and a Glock-style safety on the trigger that must be pulled for the trigger to be pulled as well. There are numerous safety features on the M&P.

This stands in stark contrast to the much heavier twelve or so pounds that the Sigmas had. Smith & Wesson markets the M&P as having a trigger pull weight of six and a half pounds. The M&P also features a low bore axis, which reduces muzzle flip and allows for faster follow up shots. The slide is machined out of stainless steel and then coated in a blackened nitride finish called Melonite, which makes the pistol very rust and corrosion resistant. The back straps are removable and can be swapped out with the small, medium, and large sizes. The frame is built out of Zytel polymer with a stainless steel chassis for extra support. The Smith & Wesson M&P9 is a striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol with a 17+1 standard capacity. The result was the Smith & Wesson M&P pistol, and in the 13 years of its existence as of the time of this writing, it has established itself as GlockвЂ™s primary competitor. Smith & Wesson worked on developing a new pistol that combined elements of the Sigma with the Smith & Wesson SW99 (essentially a clone of the Walther P99) with some new features entirely. Long story short, Smith & WessonвЂ™s answer to the Glock was the Sigma pistol, but it was routinely criticized as being an inferior gun in terms of overall quality and Glock even sued Smith & Wesson due to the SigmaвЂ™s incredibly similarity.Д®ven though the Sigma may have been an embarrassment for Smith & Wesson, they didnвЂ™t let it stop them from competing Glock. In fact, the Glock had gained such a sizable share of the pistol market in such a short amount of time that by the early 1990s Smith & Wesson realized they would have to compete. Those guns were exceptionally well-made and enormously popular with civilians and law enforcements alike, but they were also heavy compared to lighter polymer framed pistols such as the Glock.

#Smith and wesson mp45 reviews series#

Smith & WessonвЂ™s original series of semi-automatic handguns were the 1st Generation, 2nd Generation, and 3rd Generation DA/SA metal-framed pistols, such as the famous 5906. 5 Is the M&P The Best Glock Alternative?ДЄs was noted above, the M&P was a pistol many years in the making when it was first introduced in 2005.