Yup. Won't even be the 2.0 either I bet. Original was so good it met all RCMP requirements while failing a CBSA drop test
A post from 2008:
“The problem(at the time) with the M&P was the drop test(not going off when dropped though).
If the gun was dropped with a loaded mag, the mag would come out of the gun. it did it enough times that it was disqualified. The Px4 had no problems there.
And so the Px4 was chosen.
Smith & Wesson subsequently fixed the problem, but it was too late, the contract was in place.
I've shot both guns under different conditions and I think CBSA would have been a lot better off with the M&P. That is how ever, my only my humble opinion.”
From Blue Line Magazine, 2017:
“The S&W polymer-frame M&P pistol has been making serious inroads into the U.S. police market. It is now (or shortly will be) standard issue for recruits in many state and municipal police agencies, including Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Las Vegas Metro Police, Detroit Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Many other agencies have listed the M&P on their approved carry list.
In conversation with Smith & Wesson three years ago, Blue Line was told that the M&P was issued or listed by over 500 law enforcement agencies in North America. By 2018, that number may be almost triple.
In Canada, the M&P is now standard issue for several agencies such as Peel Regional Police and Windsor Police Service.
Blue Line’s head-to-head tests of the M&P against other top contenders bear out the increasing reputation of the M&P line. I found the M&P to be 100 per cent reliable and ergonomics better than anything else on the market. An older-generation Glock 21 feels like holding a two-by-four in com- parison to a M&P 45, and the SIG P226 feels like the wrong end of a baseball bat compared to the grip size of the M&P 9.”
