The pistol has aggressive texturing throughout the grip and four different palmswell inserts for custom fitting to the owner’s particular hands.The most critical feature of any firearm, particularly those carried on a daily basis, is reliability. A daily carry gun is more likely to be used in an emergency than others, and once drawn it must work, flawlessly, every time. The Smith & Wesson M&P; 2.0 Compact has recently set a new standard for reliability, with one gun recently firing two thousand rounds without a single mishap.The rise of Glock and other high capacity nine-millimeter polymer frame handguns in the 1980s and 1990s caught the famous Smith & Wesson company off guard. The company, well known for revolvers but less so for pistols, was caught off guard. The company’s first handgun, the Sigma, debuted in 1994 but failed to achieve the same level of popularity as other “Wonder Nines” of the period.(This first appeared last summer.)
