Armed American Radio - Glock vs M&P

[Shima]

This thread is not about buying foreign or American products. It's about M&Ps and Glocks. American or "Jap" cars is not the topic, so let's stay on topic shall we? Thanks.

[TGO David]

all I know is we have sent several M&P's back to Smith, even had 2 go back this year already... Never sent a Glock back... so IMHO that should tell you something.

I brought this up to our Smith Rep that just happened to stop by this week while I was dealing with a customer on a warranty issue with a M&P... he admitted they had slacked off in quality to produce quantity. Sad aint it?

Really? Who's your Smith rep? Is he speaking for the company? Or did he really say that? Maybe you misunderstood what he said.

If he really said that, he'll probably end up looking for a new job now that you've posted his words on the Internet. If he didn't say that, then you'll probably have some explaining to do when he gets called on it. It's not exactly hard to figure out who a Smith rep is for a given shop in a given area. You've probably got the same rep as every other S&W dealer in Nashville after all.

Back to the subject at hand:

Both Glock and S&W handguns are machines. Machines fail. All of them. Period. Glock has had it's share of black eyes from substandard production quality and faulty designs. They've worked out most of them and are now playing catch-up to the rest of the Firearms industry on things like ergonomics and user-adaptable grip configurations.

I own several models of both. I'm carrying my Glock 19 a lot lately but I am just as confident carrying my M&P 40 or my M&P 9. Any of them could fail me at the worst possible moment, that's why we train to deal with equipment malfunctions. Failing to train is just training to fail.

Back to your regularly scheduled Ford vs. Chevy gun bashing.

[lowbud]

Really? Who's your Smith rep? Is he speaking for the company? Or did he really say that? Maybe you misunderstood what he said.

If he really said that, he'll probably end up looking for a new job now that you've posted his words on the Internet. If he didn't say that, then you'll probably have some explaining to do when he gets called on it. It's not exactly hard to figure out who a Smith rep is for a given shop in a given area. You've probably got the same rep as every other S&W dealer in Nashville after all.

Back to the subject at hand:

Both Glock and S&W handguns are machines. Machines fail. All of them. Period. Glock has had it's share of black eyes from substandard production quality and faulty designs. They've worked out most of them and are now playing catch-up to the rest of the Firearms industry on things like ergonomics and user-adaptable grip configurations.

I own several models of both. I'm carrying my Glock 19 a lot lately but I am just as confident carrying my M&P 40 or my M&P 9. Any of them could fail me at the worst possible moment, that's why we train to deal with equipment malfunctions. Failing to train is just training to fail.

Back to your regularly scheduled Ford vs. Chevy gun bashing.

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