06 June 2026

Impulse Buy

Harvey has complained about her grip strength since she went bionic.

Because she's hit the wall in improving her shooting, we decided to rent a gun designed for people with bad grip strength.

The S&W Equalizer!

It's like a Shield Plus and an M&P EZ had a baby.  Even uses the Shield Plus magazines that I already have stacked deep for my pocket gun.

She liked it well enough that she decided we could pay interest on the credit card for it.

In GURPS terms it's identical to the M&P 2.0 9mm Compact it replaces, except for being 1.8 lb. loaded instead of 2 lb.  Same 15 round capacity.

Another plus is it fits slightly better in her purse's gun compartment.

It came with a 10-rounder, 13-rounder and 15-rounder and an UpLula.  You need that UpLula to get all 15 rounds into the big mag.

Thanks to the Shield Plus, we have a lot of the 13 rounders around already, gonna have to get some more of the 15 shot mags.

She didn't shoot the rental any worse than the M&P 2.0 9mm Compact she's been carrying; but she was much better with manipulating the slide.  She gushed about that.

One oddity was the slide lock is insanely hard to push down to let it slide home.

I'd have never noticed because I slingshot the slide, but she's been using it to release the slide on all of her pistols since she started learning to shoot.

Should be easy for her to adapt.

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