 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at the new Ruger max 9 Ruger introduced it a couple weeks ago They jumped into the subcompact double stack 9 millimeter handgun game and they did it with the max 9 Very lightweight and thin if you check out that grip there that is that is very thin And then the slide width is only 0.95 inches wide. They priced it right 499 MSRP it is out and available. I'm seeing it, but It's a little bit over the MSRP, which is pretty normal for a new release Comes with two magazines. This is the 10 round mag And over here is the 12 round mag I don't see that great of a difference maybe a little bit But I definitely go with the 12 round mag when carrying full three finger contact on the grip and of course You get that additional two rounds the texturing on the grip is similar to the security nine All right kind of sandpaper-ish not overly textured if you carry on your belt it shouldn't irritate the skin I wouldn't think so. It's got a nice feel to it texturing all around But what I also find very interesting is the front sight. It's a fiber optic tritium Front dot so you get the night sight Advantage and then you get the daylight with the fiber optic really neat I haven't seen anything like that before But they may be onto something it's all housed in metal and you have serrated black metal rear sights They said a little high to work with your optic now It is optic ready you can see it doesn't have the Ruger emblem on there and they stayed on their site I believe there are 14 different red dot optic options on there that this will fit so however they made that happen I'm pretty impressed Now the trigger The trigger I'm measuring right at five pounds. You can see it does have a trigger bar safety in there And I'm looking at five pounds no over travel at all and here is The reset right there audible reset Okay, you can see it does have front serrations This model is considered the pro model and that's because it does not have a thumb safety other models do they're 499 too But I went without the thumb safety. A lot of people really like those thumb safeties They may have grown up with the use of a thumb safety I just I always choose against it if I if I you know Have a chance to choose sometimes, you know, you just grab what you can get But they did a nice job with it. You know, I'm not sure I'm going to put an optic on there I kind of like the way it is right now, you know under 20 ounces, let's take a look at that And then we'll align it with some other pistols and see the size difference. Let's go with the 10 round mag here And we're looking at One pound two and three eighths ounces. We move that to just ounces What's that There it is 18 and three eighths ounces and then over here we've got 11 rounds 23 ounces even So that's what you'd be looking at 23 ounces And that is pretty light if we go to 12 round mag It won't be that much of a difference. All right, there's 11 rounds got another round here You're looking at 23 and three quarters ounces So it once again, they they kept it light. They kept it With a very slim profile definitely made for carry and The trusting confidence that ruger offers They did it right here. Now. Let's take a look at the American compact All right. Now this this was they call it a compact. I don't get that. I you know the smaller ones Usually a subcompact. This really isn't subcompact. But anyways, we'll take a look at The slide length look at the difference in the slide width All right. Actually, let me back in there. There it is. That's how it's supposed to be so you're looking at over an inch and then Little fatter grip with the American compact. How about the Security nine people asked me to do this one. Here's the security nine This is smaller than the American compact and over here you're looking at Well, probably an inch again, maybe maybe three quarters of an inch and that's what we're looking at with the width Now what's pretty interesting with this Is that when you disassemble it You can like the slide back. Okay, see clear but this Gate right here. You're going to push this down All right, and that will expose that pin right there and then from the other side You just take a punch or something And you punch that pin out We're not going to Put that anywhere we where we can lose it and then here's your glass filled nylon frame It is really light And then here you have a dual recoil spring all metal guide rod and a 3.2 inch barrel With the integrated barrel bushing. We see that with some of their other models. Okay, that's what that's called the integrated barrel bushing and then there is your slide Very well machined And a pretty simple disassemble process and to reassemble We're going to put this back together and see if I have that down Sometimes you have to get this in there pretty perfect and I don't know if I do But we'll go ahead and try it again And then just push that pin through Tap it in so it goes all the way and then there you go raise that raise that gate up So there's no way that that pin can come out It's a bit stiff. I have to tell you it is a bit stiff But there we go, but I'm going to get this thing to the range. I can't wait to do that It's a nice looking handgun everything on it so far seems like it's going to check out to be an awesome handgun And you know, I I have plenty of rougers. I have confidence in the rouger And I think this is only going to increase that confidence great carry gun I'm going to get get into the range this weekend and let you know how it fires If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe