a heads up for seniors like me and the wife.

If this Virus last to much longer, keep your protection within reach at an instant. We still have criminal that want and will try and take what we have, and conditions that we could be under, it will force good people to become criminals when they are desperate and their families are hungry. Don't open your doors just bc they knock on the door or ring the doorbell bc, if they are complete strangers, you don't know their intentions even when they are dressed in a suit and tie. People with bad intentions will wear anything to get you to trust them, and trusting strangers in a Pandemic can cost you and your love one your lives!!! Myself, if I don't know someone very well, I will see them as someone wanting to do me harm, and I will handled the situation as that!!! Be safe and protect yourself and your love ones!!!

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Re: a heads up for seniors like me and the wife.

Apr 8, 2020, 3:04 PM

I ask my wife which weapon she would rather have, a pistol grip 18 inch 12 gauge pump, or a 9mm M&P Shield, M&P 40 cal Shield. Her exact words after going into several Gun stores looking and holding, she said I want the 40 cal shield. Before making a purchase, we went back to Shooters Choice and I ask the guy that I know pretty well at Shooters choice, if he would take her to the back to shooting lanes they have, and let her fire a clip from the 9mm shield, and a clip from the 40 cal shield. When they came back up front, my friend grabbed up a brand new Smith & Wesson 40 cal shield, run a background check right then and sold her the 40 cal shield.

My hand gun at home at the time was a Smith & Wesson model 29- 357 magnum with the 3 1/2 inch barrel. After shooting a 50 round box of ammo from my wifes new 40 cal, I sold my 357, and bought me a 40 cal shield, and I did so bc the 40 cal shields are the best shooting, very accurate semi auto hand gun that I've personally have ever fired. And no less than 80% of the people who have them, they make the very same statement. And most gun store people say that the M&P model saved Smith & Wesson as far as making a comeback with their semi auto handgun sales are concerned, and I wouldn't have bought another Smith & Wesson semi auto until I experienced how good the M&P model is for myself. And the M&P full size semi autos work just as well as the compact M&P Shield does, and I love our M&P shields!!! I have fired a 1000 plus round from mine and never a jam, and I have fired some cheap ammo I've bought from the gun and knife shows at the fairgrounds, and still, never a Jam. Now I have had a few rounds of that cheap ammo fail to fire, but it wasn't the fault of the gun bc, the firing pin hit the primer in the ammo hard enough to make a pretty good dent in them... You get what you git with cheap ammo!!! I had one that after it fired, the ball only went about 4 ft from the end of the barrel, and I still have the undamaged ball with only rifling marks on it

For home protection, Both our 40 cals are fully loaded with Buffalo Bore Plus P jacketed hollow points that I wouldn't fear shooting a Bear with, if that's all I had at the time, but would rather have a 44 magnum for the Bears!!!