Other than a Chief's Special I inherited, the first handgun I bought was a 5904 over 30 years ago. Had a serious trigger situation where often two or three would fire from only one pull. Smith and Wesson was super about the repair and appeared to put a complete new slide on it. However, I...
I had no experience with handguns and without discussing with anyone, bought a Smith 5904 9mm close to 25 years ago and that was no gun for a starter. Very first shot, I tore up my hand with the slide recoil and was amazed with the penetration thru a double 2" x 12" backstop. After only a few...