u/logicalpretzels

Anyone have bad experience with Springfield XD9s? As far as I’m reading online they’re dead nuts reliable, but the price makes it feel too good to be true. Even a new Mod 3 is only $329 MSRP, and that gives me pause.

Still basically all I can find on forums and in YouTube comments is “1,000 rounds, zero failures” and “these guns eat everything” and “had mine for a decade, no issues”. The only bad I consistently read is people complaining that the trigger is meh, which of course it is, it’s not a $1k competition gun, it’s a $300 duty gun.

With almost every LGS around me brimming with used Safariland XD40 holsters (which I’ve read will work with the XD9) and the ability to mount an optic (albeit after purchasing Springfield’s proprietary mounting plates), it’s seems like either a steal, or too good to be true.

Specifically looking for any bad experiences with Springfield XDs. Do they choke on hollowpoints? Do they have a usual part that breaks at so-and-so rounds fired? Do they require feed ramp polishing to work reliably? Does the finish let rust build up? I’m grasping at straws, I haven’t actually heard of any of these things happening with XDs, but just throwing them out there as examples of the kind of reliability issues I’m searching for. If none can be provided, I can’t help but feel dumb for letting such a dependable and well supported pistol pass me by at such a good price.

Thanks!

It’s certainly not a macho thing for me (I’m trans feminine non-binary). I don’t feel any more masculine nor even any cooler than normal when I handle my gun or shoot it at a range.

I also don’t think that I’m someday gonna save a public place from a random mass shooter, like the In-And-Out shooting in Idaho or the mall food court shooting in Indiana; valiant though those concealed carriers who actually stopped the bad guys in those cases are, the chances of even being caught in the middle of a mass shooting are vanishingly tiny, even less the chances that I would be the hero of the day and save everyone. That’s pure fantasy.

I certainly don’t intend any nefarious acts with it either. I’ve never been on the wrong side of the law in my 30 years of life, and I don’t wanna start now; I’ve never even been pulled over. And fundamentally I am a Pacifist. I despise violence, I despise bloodshed. I can’t even stomach violent movies anymore, unless the violence is germane to the plot line. My gun is absolutely not a tool in my eyes for any ill-intent.

No, the reason I own a gun is because I view it as a tool for increasing my chances of survival.

I’m extremely lucky that I have never once even considered self-harm in my life; even in my most lonely and depressive moments, I always believed that my life could get better. The risk of self-harm is the greatest concern over gun ownership, and I’m very lucky that that risk just doesn’t apply to me.

So as long as I practice safe handling, and train as often as possible to become proficient in it’s use, than the only way my gun ownership affects my safety is to increase it, to make me more safe.

Obviously, if I ever used it in the wrong situation than I would flip that dynamic on it’s head and it would render me less safe, but that’s part of the obligations you take on when you become a gun owner: to research and consider when and how it may be appropriate to use such lethal force. And the truth is, there is only 1 category of situations in which lethal force is acceptable: when a credible, immediate threat of lethal force is being levied against you. Again, I am extremely lucky that in all my life I’ve never personally experienced such a situation as that. I hope I never do.

So my gun is not a toxically masculine compensation device, nor is it a symbol of my heroic fantasies, nor is it a means to achieve my nefarious ends. It is a survival tool, a last resort to ensure the furtherance of my life, even if someone out there tries to take it.

I think that’s a perfectly noble and moral reason to own a gun.

Why do you own a gun?

Looking to get my second 9mm firearm, already have a CZ 75 BD (DA/SA w/ decocker only) but it’s heavy being all steel and the holster options are limited. Great gun tho.

Especially looking for something slightly more compact, like Glock 19 sized.

Also I don’t have HK money lol so more like $300-$600 range.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Some very intelligent, deep thinking people I know just completely lose all their faculties of rationality the instant that guns become the topic.

They actually seem to think that guns are magically evil devices whose only purpose for existing is to facilitate mass death, and that the only solution to gun violence is to just ban guns away (as if that’s even possible).

They don’t know how guns work, they don’t know why anyone would want one, and they interpret any attempt to personally educate them on firearms and their mechanics as pedantic equivocation to excuse the deaths of children.

They actually seem to believe that anybody who supports civilian gun ownership is just totally fine with dead children in schools, as if that’s a necessary feature of an armed society and something that gun owners endorse. The way they view gun owners is borderline dehumanizing, like all gun owners automatically have blood on their hands, it’s insane.

Obviously not all Liberals act this way, but the trend is undeniable, especially with older Liberals. Liberals like my mother. She once said “anyone who owns an AR-15 is a Nazi”. Everytime I mention that I went to the range I have to hear the same sermon on how I wouldn’t shoot guns if I had seen the wounds she witnessed as a trauma nurse (which hell maybe I wouldn’t but I recognize that would be a trauma response, not a logical one). When I once asked “did you also see horrific car accident victims?” and she replied “yes” I said “and yet you get into a car everyday”, but she just dismissed that IMO perfectly reasonable comparison and shut down the convo completely. She’s intransigent, and borderline belligerent when the topic comes up. This is from someone I’ve known all my life whose thoughts and advice I generally hold in high regard; she’s a very perceptive and intelligent person in almost all respects, considerate and thoughtful about many issues, and has even changed her opinion on some things over time. But on this topic she cannot and will not even hear my arguments out. I mention the systemic and sociopolitical factors that fundamentally drive gun violence, and she just responds “we need to take the guns away”. I say “that’s impossible” and she says “I don’t care, we need to find a way”.

I find many older Liberals operate the same way regarding the topic of guns. It’s really insane, that how no matter how good our reasoning is, anything besides an idealistic hippie wetdream “no guns, just peace and love” policy prescription is unthinkable to them.

Looking for lightweight, slip resistant, side zip boots with ankle support and arch support, preferably not more than $200. Any thoughts on these?