Guns: Your Mileage May Vary

Smith and Wesson is arriving fashionably late to the single-stack 9mm dance with the M&P Shield:



The Shield seems like a good enough gun (Caleb gave it a glowing review), but it's tough to tell from the reviews and video I've seen so far; after all, the only people who've shot the darn thing are professional gun writers and competition shooters. Getting Jerry Miculek and Julie Golob to demonstrate a handgun is like getting Dario Franchitti to run a Camry around a test track - the result might be impressive, but you can't tell how much comes from the equipment and how much comes from the user.