 Hey there friends thanks for checking in. Smith & Wesson has been inconsistent the past four or five years. They have quality control that I think has gone downhill and I have known people personally who bought a Smith & Wesson firearm and only had to send it back because of issues. These are issues that should not happen when leaving the factory. I had a problem with the revolver I had an M19 that had all the makings of a great revolver but when shooting it completely locked up the trigger was locked the cylinder was locked and customer service was nowhere to be found. So it is my estimation that Smith & Wesson needs to clean up their act. You look at the revolvers they are so expensive but yet they still have that hillary hole which by and large people don't want. It's an internal lack that little hole above the cylinder release. It started in 2001 response to the government for some of the things they wanted that's why it's dubbed the hillary hole and if I could get my hands on a 1980 Smith & Wesson 4 inch barrel stainless steel revolver with the hammer on or the firing pin on the hammer I would love that I've been keeping my eye out on one of those for a while. Moving to modern times if you recall they produced the Smith & Wesson Sigma it was a budget priced handgun that a lot of people complained about I had one I complained about it the trigger was super long it made a double action revolver feel single action it had all the makings of the decent handgun 4 inch barrel compact size polymer frame striker fire handgun but it was budget priced and some people liked it you know you get it for like 150 bucks we're talking 10 years ago Smith realized that a lot of people didn't like the trigger so their response was an SD9 now the SD9 was also budget priced when they came out with that people said you know you could pick this up for 250 bucks and it performs great and this and that blah blah blah they said it's just as good as the MMP line now at that time the MMP was just being introduced and they said this is just as good but it never quite hit that status because when the MMP line was introduced it hit the floor running a lot of people liked it some law enforcement agencies started taking the MMP line over the Glock's and it became extremely popular in the gun world so the SD9 was sort of that that little gun that existed but it was off to the side but the one that I am somewhat interested in right now is the new release of the SD9 2 which is a second generation they made a flat trigger with the trigger tab in there they have deeper cut serrations it essentially looks the same with the exception of what I just talked about the trigger and the slide serrations 16 round magazine and they kept it budget priced right around 349 dollars is the MSRP after it gets out and circulated and distributed and everything it will probably drop down to right around 300 dollars at that point I may check out the Smith of Wesson SD2 it seems SD9 to it seems to have taken care of the issues while remaining at a budget price now the Palmer frame compact size 9 millimeter handguns are a dime a dozen these days can we just face it you look at what some of SAR arms T-SUS canik everybody has put out their version of a Palmer frame striker fire 9 millimeter handgun I think in order for Smith to be somewhat successful and competitive with the SD9 to they had to make it budget priced and if they can get that right around the 300 dollar mark it could be a hot seller for them and at that point I will be interested in it because I have to say I'm not interested in the their 12 gauge MMP 12 I'm not interested in the response I'm not interested in any more MMPs but that SD9 budget priced hit that category working man's budget with the improvements made if that thing works well and it doesn't leave the factory with issues then I would be interested in that I want to know what you think do you think that the Hillary hole is okay do you think that their customer service is awesome do you think that they have dropped in quality control the last couple years are you interested in the SD9 to or do you feel you're all set in that category it's just another power frame wonder nine jumping into the crowded market and it's really gonna die off rather quickly if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe