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[SandRoad]

Looks like an M&P to me. Marketing B.S.!!!!

It IS marketing. That is how they sell guns in the US, since guns are a commodity.

 

[667]

I thought the best pistol for home defence is a shotgun...

 

[Hokus Grey]

Anyone here shot one?


Then why all the judgements, unless everyone's got JoJo's Psychic Alliance on speed dial?

 

[gallen270]

wtf is a self defense trigger?

 

[Wolfstrack]

it's just a new dressed SIGMA ...same old, same old!

and here is the SIGMA

 

[newshot]

The difference is in the technology. Guns are more then just what they look like. You people may as well buy purses if all you care about is how it looks. The main difference is in the revolutionary Self Defence trigger, it knows Karate.

 

[Bullwhip]

... with factory FRONT night sight, plain white-dot rear sights, and a shorter grip.[/SIZE]

-M

People are asking why the negativity? Because of stupid s**t like this, marketing a home defense gun with ONE night sight.

That even trumps the texture pad/rich Corinthian leather marketing bullcrap, IMHO.

I'm sure the beancounters are happy they're not having to pay for a set of tritium back sites, but come on.

Your customer is more likely to pound one into the ceiling or the floor than be able to hit a target at night with that set up.

 

[Wendell]

it's just a new dressed SIGMA ...same old, same old!

The Sigma had plastic sights, a proprietary rail, a poor trigger pull, and a magazine disconnecter.

This SD9/SD40 pistol might have an improved trigger and they have fixed the other three issues.

It appears to me that this new pistol might offer a viable defensive handgun for the average person at a price the average person wouldn't mind paying.

I, for one, look forward to shooting an SD9.

 

[NAA]

But this one has a new pattented "Self Defense Trigger"! WTF is that supposed to mean? Looks like an M&P to me. Marketing B.S.!!!!

Yeah, aka the Glock rip-off trigger...

NAA.

 

[dudley2112]

so to summ up we have an improved sigma rebranded and renamed with a glock style trigger, if they make it here for anywhere near the US MSRP i would consider one.

 

[Brutus]

so to summ up we have an improved sigma rebranded and renamed with a glock style trigger, if they make it here for anywhere near the US MSRP i would consider one.

No you would not, they are prohibited up here.

 

[Hokus Grey]

Yup, the big thing in the US right now is "Concealed Carry" pistols. That's 4" or less from what I've seen. We can get teh ghey extended barrell tho!

 

[dudley2112]

No you would not, they are prohibited up here.

hence the IF it made it up here, last time i checked a glock 26 was prohib so was a sig 228 but its amazing what a longer barrel can do

 

[tjhaile]

S&W seems to already have an inordinately large number of different auto pistol families:

-Third Generation (although these are being phased out)
-M&P
-SW99
-Smegma, er, I mean Sigma
-1911

And now they are introducing what looks to be a warmed over Sigma. I fail to see what this gun has to offer that the M&P doesn't. Three and now four different lines of polymer framed striker fired pistols is too much duplication of effort. As for as auto pistols go, S&W should stick to building 1911s and M&Ps.