More gun porn... custom Smith & Wesson M&P 45acp

[TGO David]

Build list includes:

Standard trigger job

Shark Skin treatment applied to Front Strap, Back Strap, Magazine Release, Striker Cover, Trigger, and both Forward Index Points.

Melt treatment

Melonite reapplied to slide after the melt

Trijicon front sight

My rear sight- Will be swapped out with my rear night sight as soon as batch 2 arrives.

www.burwellgunsmithing.com

Dan did the trigger job on my full-size M&P 40 and it's a work of art now. The guy REALLY knows his stuff.

[shaftbass]

Red silk sheets.

[Guest VandyZ]

Nice gun! Smooth Sheets.

[Branket]

Red silk sheets.

He said porn right?

[DaveTN]

I want that M&P .45 with the ambi-safety and mag disconnect.

But since I paid waaaaaaaay too much for my M&P .40 I will probably have to wait awhile.

[molonlabetn]

Aye, the one with the safety is tempting... I'll be more interested when the .357sig model is available with that feature. That might convince me to overlook my less-than-100% compatibility with the grip...

[Cruel Hand Luke]

Just my OPINION , but I have NO interest in a manual safety or in a magazine disconnect.

I don't have kids in the house. I don't carry openly so I'm not likely to be the intended victim of a gun grab. I keep my finger off the trigger until the pistol is indexed on the target. I want a pistol to fire the round in the chamber if I need it to even if the mag is not in it. I'm not careless with my muzzle or my trigger finger.

So no safety or disconnect for me.

[molonlabetn]

I don't care for mag disconnects myself... but the safety, to me, has no downside. Folks who have practiced alot with 1911s, BHPs, and the like (such as myself) instinctively flick the safety off as part of the draw-stroke, just like any other part of learned gun-handling.

The other issue, too, is the fact that many folks keep a pistol or long gun accessible at home. I don't know of anyone who would advocate keeping any type of HD firearm loaded, charged and with the safety off. The safety, in the case of a pistol without an external safety, being the holster itself which covers the trigger. However, unless the holster is mounted somehow, it will require two hands to draw from... hence, some having a preference for the flexibility afforded by a firearm which can be made more secure without other external elements.

Small differences, but oftentimes worthwhile when the alternative is 5lb + or - pressure standing between you and an ND.

This is one reason why the grip-safety on the XD is probably one of the most effective types of passive safeties currently incorporated on a handgun (aside, perhaps, from the cocking lever on the H&K P7...)

[Cruel Hand Luke]

If someone else likes a manual safety there is nothing wrong with that.

I don't.

I WEAR my gun 18 hours a day. When I take it off it stays in the holster. I don't leave it laying around un-holstered. If I'm awake it is on me.

Some do not wish to invest that much effort into carrying. That is OK for them. I choose to keep mine on me.

But whether it has a safety or not, keeping your "booger hookers off the Bang Switch" prevents Negligent Discharges. My brain acts as the safety. Plenty of folks negligently shoot themselves or others every year with guns that have safeties. They break rule #3. If someone is gonna be careless and finger the trigger then a safety still won't always save them.

Again I don't have unauthorized personell (children) running around handling my pistol. So in MY case it does not offer me any advantage. I carry a Glock 34. I keep it holstered. I don't take it out for show and tell. I don't leave it laying around.

No safety. No problem.

[Guest Phantom6]

...No safety. No problem.

A Glock Shooter I presume.

[DaveTN]

Well ya know what; here’s the good news….

Some of us have a want/need for mag disconnects and external safeties, and some of us do not. Smith & Wesson has both groups covered 100%. So it's not even an issue.

[BimmerFreak]

Well ya know what; here’s the good news….

Some of us have a want/need for mag disconnects and external safeties, and some of us do not. Smith & Wesson has both groups covered 100%. So it's not even an issue.

Yep...have it YOUR way!!!

[fury2neon]

Joe you are going to give it away that you stared in all those commercials posting pic's of yourself...

[Sean]

Wow, Tung that .45 is sweet. Is this your main carring gun?

[TGO David]

Wow, Tung that .45 is sweet. Is this your main carring gun?

Nah, my carry gun is an M&P .40SW Compact. The 1911 is mostly for the range and occasionally for shooting Single Stack division in USPSA events.

[Schadenfreude]

I assume that = dehorn, remove all sharp edges

[TGO David]

I assume that = dehorn, remove all sharp edges

That's correct.