So I am always enthused to hear about new guns coming to market, after all, more guns on the market means more variety and more things for me to shoot. I like excuses to go shoot. In a rather long press release, the Performance Center released their plans for 2017, among them was the new Performance Center Shield .45 that we leaked a while back. What we didn’t know was coming was the slide kits.

OK, so I know you are sitting there thinking, “Patrick, slides are lame. Get over it.” You couldn’t be more wrong friend. The fact that you can now upgrade that tired old police trade-in gun with a ready made kit from Smith is nothing short of outstanding. It leaves me wondering if it will be possible to pick up one of those ultra cheap Gen 1 M&P .40 guns that flooded the market when police departments all over the US dumped them and fit the new slide kit (one chambered in a respectable caliber like 9mm) and changed the ejector out for the appropriate part.

I guess that is a question that I will need to ask the folks at the Smith booth once I swing by. Think of the possibilities!

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