This pistol is available in three color variations - all black, black with silver highlights, and black with gold highlights as you see here. For those of you thinking, “What the pimp-in-a-purple-fedora hell is going on here?,” let me explain. You’ve all already seen the photos accompanying this article of the pistol in question. This Performance Center model features upgrades inside and out. So, S&W offered a 9mm version of the Shield EZ. 380 Shield EZ was a huge hit, but many people had the same complaint - the caliber. To fix that, S&W recently introduced a 9mm version of the Shield EZ (the M&P9 Shield EZ, a slightly better name) and now they’ve introduced a semi-custom version of that same pistol, the Performance Center M&P9 Shield EZ. The only downside to the Smith & Wesson M&P380 Shield EZ in many people’s minds was the caliber. 380 ACP.īut…then I laid hands on it, and I experienced everything S&W did to make this gun easier to load, clean, shoot, etc. 40 S&W, and this new pistol was “only” a. The original Shield was offered in 9mm and. Then, I hated the very idea of it: S&W took one of their most popular and smart guns ever, sized it up to make it less concealable, and then chambered it in a smaller, weaker cartridge.

Seriously, say it out loud, it’s thirteen syllables, that’s more than antidisestablishmentarianism. When it was announced, the Smith & Wesson M&P380 Shield EZ was one of those guns that I couldn’t wait to hate.

Smith and wesson ez 9mm turquoise