S&W Shield lower trigger issue: Alert!

[CZB1962]

Imagine how I felt last night when less than an hour after I purchased my Shield, I Google M&P Shield and the second hit is a safety recall notice! It was a FTF purchase so my first thought was that he had heard about this and was dumping the gun. However the web page was only five hours old and this gun had been on Armslist for three days so unless some people got advanced notice, I don't think he knew.

Mine passed the test with no issues, so I guess I am OK.

 

[rgrimm01]

Imagine how I felt last night when less than an hour after I purchased my Shield, I Google M&P Shield and the second hit is a safety recall notice! ...

Do not be bummed out and have buyer's remorse. I think you will love the ergos and very possibly the way she runs. I "borrow" My Lady's when she is not looking... If there wasn't one in the house already, I would get one for me. May yet...

 

[CZB1962]

Do not be bummed out and have buyer's remorse. I think you will love the ergos and very possibly the way she runs. I "borrow" My Lady's when she is not looking... If there wasn't one in the house already, I would get one for me. May yet...

Not bummed, but it did seem like one of those "only to me" kind of moments. I am looking forward to taking it out and comparing it to my CM9. The shield was the one gun I did not get to hold before I bought my Kahr and I have always wanted to compare. I picked it up at a decent price (for a Shield) and figured if I don't like it I can sell or trade it pretty easy.

I do hope that this issue does not affect resell value.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Needs to be resaid:

This is NOT A RECALL. NOT. A. RECALL.

-J-

 

[CZB1962]

Needs to be resaid:

This is NOT A RECALL. NOT. A. RECALL.

-J-

You are correct. They are calling it a safety alert.

I would like to hear more as to if this was a short term manufacturing defect, or something that we have to worry about developing over time. I am going to have to reasearch a little when I get home tonight.

 

[WestSider]

I've had my Shield for over a year. Just checked it, looks fine to me. Thanks for posting the info.

 

[HICKMAN]

I'll have to give my wife's a checkup tonight

 

[s&wluvr]

Thank you for posting this. Just checked mine and it is good to go. Thanks again.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I would like to hear more as to if this was a short term manufacturing defect, or something that we have to worry about developing over time.

Hard to say at this point. I'm sure that S&W will call it a short-term manufacturing defect.

As much as we'd like it to be true, even huge companies like S&W outsource a lot of small parts manufacturing.

And crap happens. You get a batch of plastic that wasn't blended to the correct specifications - you can get brittle parts and not know it until they break.

Same thing happened to Kahr several years ago with their .40S&W mag followers. Bad batch of followers from their supplier = broken followers. I got three new followers out of that one.

Whatever the case/reason - it IS something to keep an eye on as time goes by.

-J-

 

[bwframe]

Maybe just avoid dropping the gun until this all gets sorted out?

 

[Andyccw]

I'll have to give my wife's a checkup tonight

That's what she said!

I just got my Shield back from S&W a couple weeks ago for a site issue... I hope I don't have to send it back again.

 

[rbMPSH12]

Just checked my Shield. G2G! Sweet.

 

[Faiden]

I hadn't heard about this, thanks for the heads up! Luckily, mine does not seem to have this problem!

 

[ru44mag]

My First Fire date is 7/8/13. The tab will only return if I push the trigger forward. It will be taking a trip back to MA for repair. Ugh.

This is one of the reasons I buy 2 of every gun I really like. Gotta have a spare.

 

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