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Interesting concept. I’d like to see it compared to the other pocket pistols that are currently on the market.
I don’t know anything about the quality of Insight’s products, but just looking at the Bodyguard vs. the options available for the Ruger LCP I’d guess the ergonomics aren’t up to the Crimson Trace’s standards.
That website you linked to has a link to S&W’s new products catalog - I’m more interested in the M&P 22 with the threaded barrel and the new M&P9/40 Pros with the 4.25" barrels and the “smooth” trigger pull.
Looks like they’re getting ready to take on Ruger.
I love me some good ol’ competition 
Yay capitalism!
Why are manufacturers focusing on .380 pocket pistols and ignoring the many pleas for a good single stack 9mm?
I don’t get it.
Buckaroo
The .38 looks very interesting. It looks like a rethink of the J frame…the first real attempt at that in the decades of its existence. The ambi release, in theory anyway, is a welcome addition. I want to see how the laser is activated.
The .380 semi-auto looks reasonable…except for the laser activation. If I’m firing the weapon one handed (as one is likely to do with such a weapon drawn hastily from a pocket at close range) how am I supposed to activate the laser?
I would be happy as a clam if they would just release a no-lock 642, with a decent set of sights. Add the Crimson Trace grips, and you are ready to go.
Honestly, how challenging would it have been, to add the sights they put on the new model 632 and 640?
Instead, I’ll get to pay someone like Hamilton Bowen several hundred dollars to order the sights from S&W, and mill them onto my pistol.
Not a knock on Mr. Bowen, by the way. He’s a very fine smith.
But damn, so close.
I’m beginning to think that maybe we need to kidnap some execs in the gun industry, put them in a room, and then force them to look at a list of requirements for their next products. I think that’s the only way they’ll ever actually listen.
Somehow the idea of coming to a place like…well, M4Carbine.net…and posting a low key thread asking “Say guys, if you were to redesign the Smith J frame, what would you do with it?” seems foreign to them.
I’m a peaceful man. I was thinking bourbon, cigars, some awesome BBQ. A few gentle hints.
And if that fails, you ask Templar to crush them all with his bare hands.
Come on, JW, they are like executives anywhere. They listen to the marketing director who presents his research in a Power Point at the 10:00am weekly meeting.
How many serious shooters are there? Probably a lot less than we think. And the Ford F-150 4x4 buyers far out number the Range Rover 110 buyers. OK, not a perfect example, but Kimber probably sells the pants off of the CDP.
M_P
Sad but true. Most firearms companies aim for either the law enforcement market or towards the person who probably shoots only a couple hundred rounds per year, maybe less. Hard core shooters are the minority.
I have no use for a .380 but I’m a S&W fan so I hope this new pistol is better in quality than the Sigma .380. It sure looks “busy” with all of those levers. How many do you need on a sub-compact striker-fired pistol besides a slide stop?
Sort of looks cool but I am absolutely not a fan of tiny little semi-autos, and I am even less of a fan of the .380 round.
A safety and a laser? Kinda a busy little thing for a bug, isn’t it? Not what I want to deal with when the excrement is rolling down hill at an expeditious rate. Make it in 9mm, take those busy little levers off of the thing, make it striker-fired and get rid of the ray gun do-dad and I might consider a second look.
Why in the hell cant they just give us a great quality single stack 9mm?
I’m a huge fan of Smith pistols, but the 380 doesnt do anything for me. LIke others, I’d like to see a redesign of the 3913/3953.
I saw it last night along with their new revolver at the S&W party here at SHOT. It has a lot of potential for a good pocket pistol.
“It has a lot of potential for a pocket pistol”
Sure, and so does any Kel-tec.
looks like a taurus.
not a fan of the 380 myself, but with the right ammo they provide a BUG option for those who will not (chose not to) carry a bigger BUG like a G26 or J-Frame, i.e. they are better than nothing.
In my experience, which is minimal, Ladies are more likely to carry something like this or the LCP (with CT laser) when they would just leave a larger heavier gun at home, car, or in their purse.
I have tried many different pistols and revolvers for CC and BUG applications and it has always come down to two guns in the end, the last several years, either a P2000SK in .40S&W 98% of the time or a S&W 340PD in .357 Magnum for the other 2 percent.
If I have to pull the trigger it’ll be a round to put them down, not annoy them like a .380.
Why are manufacturers focusing on .380 pocket pistols and ignoring the many pleas for a good single stack 9mm?
Walther PPS, I’m not sure there will ever be any better.
As for this piece. I don’t like the fact that you HAVE to spring for the insight laser, nor do I like the fact that it appears to have a manual safety, which I deem at to be unnecessary at best for this type of gun and a hindrance at worst.
Oh, and it kinda looks like a Taurus :eek: