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Smith & Wesson – M&P 9 Shield EZ

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Smith & Wesson just announced a 9mm variant of the Shield EZ, a carry/defensive pistol introduced in 2018. Originally available only in a .380 chambering, the EZ was designed for ease-of-use, with an easy to rack slide and easy to load magazines, and was principally marketed to inexperienced shooters and those with weaker grip strength that made racking a traditional pistol slide difficult.

This trend continues with the 9mm variant, which shares virtually all the same features, from its single stack midsized frame to the eight round capacity easy-load magazines, as its predecessor. The frame itself has an 18° grip angle, 1911-esque grip safety, M2.0 style texturing, reversible magazine catch, and a picatinny rail dust cover for the attachment of a light or laser.

The slide features front and rear charging serrations, a tactile loaded chamber indicator, windage adjustable rear sight, and S&W’s Armornite corrosion-resistant finish.

The Smith & Wesson M&P 9 Shield EZ is now available through Smith & Wesson dealers, in four variants:

  • With ambidextrous manual thumb safety
  • Without ambidextrous manual thumb safety
  • Crimson Trace frame with manual safety
  • Crimson Trace frame without manual safety
  • www.smith-wesson.com/9ez

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    3 Responses to “Smith & Wesson – M&P 9 Shield EZ”

    1. LGonSS says:

      My parents are in their sixties. Father was an aBE on carriers for 25 years, hands wrought with pain and mild arthritis. Mother is petite and, well… petite. They both appreciated the 380EZ for its ease of racking and use.

      This going to 9mm will be welcome in their home, rather than just “a shotgun by the door.”

    2. Joe says:

      Everyone under 40 needs to listen up: the body breaks down regardless of training or gym time or antioxidants or whatever the science of the day tells you will make it last forevermore, because no one controls the initial specs.

      We can cheat with technology/knowledge/wisdom, but that doesn’t change the inherent design limitations of the meat machine we all inhabit.

      I don’t need one of these… yet.

      But I’m glad S&W understands that one day, sooner than I’d like, I probably will, and they built the proper machine around that salient fact.

    3. mike says:

      The 380EZ has been extremely popular at the gun shop I part-time at, but 380 is expensive and you don’t get a wide variety of grain weights at most places. The rough thing about that is that if you limp wrist the 380EZ, as most of the target audience for that gun do, it will almost assuredly fail to cycle with higher grain rounds; it needs low grain hot ammo to reliably cycle for limpwristers. At least when it’s new, it may eventually break in past that but I doubt it.

      9MM not only puts this pistol in a more affordable and easier to find and stockpile caliber, but makes me MUCH more comfortable buying one for my parents and feeling a lot more certain about it going bang when they want it to.

      Just need to disable the grip safety… another trend I’ve found working with the target audience for the 380EZ is that they don’t always get a good master grip, especially as they get tired and their attention drifts after some time on the range, and the gun gets locked out. Add to this the effects of shooting under duress/stress and I don’t like it for my folks. A proper holster that blocks off the area inside the trigger guard, no safety, and a disabled grip safety. I’m really looking forward to shooting this and getting them into the range to shoot it. I look forward also to being able to show people in the target audience a pistol that works for them in a caliber that makes more sense for most people.