Funniest guy on YouTube introducing the new Shield Plus from Smith and Wesson. No ammo to shoot through it, but it sounds like a very fun gun. And isn’t that what guns are all about? The comments from his gay following are half the fun of a TFB video. They’re not shooting blanks. But as to the firearm its kind of the culmination of what started 3 years ago with the Sig 365. Sig Sauer came to the conclusion that while an 8 inch 44 ounce 1911 is a great weapon, no one is going to carry that 7 shot classic on a regular basis. They came up with a lightweight (less than 20 ounces) 10+1 super pistol in 9mm and made the other gun manufacturers look rather 1980ish.

Springfield a year later said to hell with that, and they introduced the Hellcat, 1 more round in the same package only barely bigger than a pack of cigarettes. Sig said we’ll do you one better and came out with the 365XL. Ruger came out with the Max 9 and everybody yawned. But S&W really caught the attention of the gun world with the Shield Plus. With a 13+1 capacity, these subcompacts are making compacts obsolete (15 rounds and a lot bigger). The only other pistols that even make sense are the full size with 19 or 21 rounds. Otherwise you’d just go with the micro or subcompact 9mm. Oh, but the funniest thing? .22 LR pistols in the year 2021? 10 rounds.