shootersix
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- Mar 10, 2009
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I was working at the shop on Saturday and a guy came in wanting to possibly trade in his m&p 9 I started looking at it and noticed a few oddities about it that ive never seen on a m&p before
first thing was the loaded chamber indicator if was a piece that popped up like on the ruger sr9 (that made me think it was a ma compliant gun)
second was the thumb safety, it had a red dot that was visible when the safety was off
third it was triple serial numbered (frame, slide, and barrel)
fourth on the slide was another number that started with USPOL then has a series of numbers
fifth was it had a cardboard box from the factory, it had the same label that comes on the plastic box
sixth it had a aluminum cleaning rod, and the grip panels had lanyard holes (I know 2.0 m&p's have them, but I didn't thing gen 1's had them)
seventh NO SAFETY LOCK! (the guy said he bought the gun at academy sports) federal law says handguns have to have a safety lock when sold!
and lastly the sku number was one I couldn't find, I went to smith and wessons website and did a sku look up and this numbed wasn't there, the number after it was but not this one
so my thinking was, it was an over run for a European police agency (due to the triple serial numbers) that was never exported (it didn't have any import marks either), I think he said he paid 360.00 for it at academy sports, I wasn't interested in it (we have a 1st gen compact that has had no interest), but after talking to him and pointing out all the interesting features that aren't on other m&p's he said hes going to keep it, I recommended he call smith and Wesson and see if they could tell him who it was made for (hell I would just to satisfy my own curiosity)
so given what I noticed on the pistol, what do you think ingo? some European police department gun?
first thing was the loaded chamber indicator if was a piece that popped up like on the ruger sr9 (that made me think it was a ma compliant gun)
second was the thumb safety, it had a red dot that was visible when the safety was off
third it was triple serial numbered (frame, slide, and barrel)
fourth on the slide was another number that started with USPOL then has a series of numbers
fifth was it had a cardboard box from the factory, it had the same label that comes on the plastic box
sixth it had a aluminum cleaning rod, and the grip panels had lanyard holes (I know 2.0 m&p's have them, but I didn't thing gen 1's had them)
seventh NO SAFETY LOCK! (the guy said he bought the gun at academy sports) federal law says handguns have to have a safety lock when sold!
and lastly the sku number was one I couldn't find, I went to smith and wessons website and did a sku look up and this numbed wasn't there, the number after it was but not this one
so my thinking was, it was an over run for a European police agency (due to the triple serial numbers) that was never exported (it didn't have any import marks either), I think he said he paid 360.00 for it at academy sports, I wasn't interested in it (we have a 1st gen compact that has had no interest), but after talking to him and pointing out all the interesting features that aren't on other m&p's he said hes going to keep it, I recommended he call smith and Wesson and see if they could tell him who it was made for (hell I would just to satisfy my own curiosity)
so given what I noticed on the pistol, what do you think ingo? some European police department gun?