Pistol frame - stripped guide strips?

[Shinato]

Hi everyone. I'm a gun n00b and I've recently acquired a P30L as my first pistol.

I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, and I'm just going through the process of disassembling and assembling the pistol to see how it works. When I was pushing the slide back onto the frame however, I was using too much force initially while it is not completely aligned and that seemed to have stripped the middle and rear guide strips on the frame:



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I guess that's what happens when you ram a chunk of metal against a little piece of polymer. I'm a little sad that I'm starting to destroy my pistol already before I even get to shoot it, but I was wondering if this is going to pose a safety concern down the road? Any comments would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[canuckgunny]

Non issue.

 

[unstableryan]

plastic tabs don't keep polymer pistols together when firing. It's strong, but not that awesome.

 

[easy]

Don't worry. It will get used a lot more than that when you do get firing it.

 

[Gundoggy]

Looks like you've got a P30S with the safety lever.

Does it have an threaded barrel or longer barrel/slide which would make it a P30 LS?

 

[Shinato]

Thanks for all your replies. I look forward to shooting it for the first time!

Looks like you've got a P30S with the safety lever.

Does it have an threaded barrel or longer barrel/slide which would make it a P30 LS?

It's a stock P30LS.

For the longest time I thought I was buying a P30L, because that's what the gun store labelled it as, and the slide also reads 'P30L'. It's not until I took it home and read about the differences in the 'S' version that I figured I have a P30LS instead.