{"id":3948,"date":"2015-07-30T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-08-05T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T21:26:15","slug":"smith-wesson-mp-9c-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/smith-wesson-mp-9c-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years with the Smith &#038; Wesson M&#038;P 9c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started carrying a handgun on a regular basis, I&#8217;ve tried dozens of different carry guns of all types; full size semi-autos, compacts, revolvers big and small, tiny pocket rocket .380s, and vintage Cold War-Era military surplus pistols. And that&#8217;s not even counting the guns I&#8217;ve carried as part of research for reviews &#8212; just my personal carry options. I tend to have a hard time making\u00a0a major decision\u00a0unless I know what\u00a0<em>all<\/em> my options are. So in the case of carry pistols, I tried as many as I could before really committing.<\/p> <p>If you&#8217;re a long-time reader of the Lounge, then you know that the carry pistol I finally settled on is the\u00a0M&amp;P 9c &#8212; Smith &amp; Wesson&#8217;s compact 9mm version of their polymer framed, striker-fired M&amp;P pistol. I started carrying this gun about five years ago, and while I&#8217;ve tried a few other carry guns here and there during that time, I always end up coming back to the compact M&amp;P. I shot this\u00a0quick video this week to explain why I picked the M&amp;P 9c, what I like about it, and what I&#8217;d like to change if I could.<\/p> <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6V7CogUc4nk?&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p> <h3><strong>The Best Carry Pistol\u00a0<em>Ever!?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3> <p>I wouldn&#8217;t say the M&amp;P 9c\u00a0unequivocally the\u00a0<em>best<\/em> carry gun on the market, but it&#8217;s the best one I&#8217;ve found that I can comfortably carry and easily conceal in almost any of my clothes\u00a0while still maintaining the qualities of a good fighting pistol: reliable operation, effective caliber, manageable recoil, and decent ammo capacity.<\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3958 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Baker w\/ M&amp;P9c\" width=\"1200\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-3-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>Notice that there&#8217;s a lot of subjectivity in those qualities, and a lot of room for debate. However, when measured against those factors, the M&amp;P 9c comes out looking pretty good by most standards, and I believe\u00a0it&#8217;s underrated in that respect. The &#8220;serious&#8221; self-defense crowd has embraced the Glock 19 as the go-to all-around carry pistol. And I have a hard time arguing with that &#8212; it&#8217;s a fantastic self-defense tool and probably as close to a universal, generic &#8220;best carry gun&#8221; as we&#8217;re going to get. But for reasons I explain in the video, the M&amp;P compact just works better for me, and I recommend it without hesitation right alongside the\u00a0G19.<\/p> <p>If you&#8217;re newer to concealed carry, a fat double stack pistol might seem intimidating for a first carry gun. That&#8217;s okay &#8212; a lot of people take some time to experiment with different holsters and carry methods and eventually work their way up from the pocket pistols to\u00a0slightly\u00a0heavier, but more effective handguns. If you&#8217;re a little farther along that continuum and you&#8217;ve been carrying\u00a0a small single stack and want to upgrade to something a bit more formidable but still easy to carry, the M&amp;P 9c is an excellent next step, and definitely worthy of consideration.<\/p><p><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1.jpg\" alt=\"Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P9c\" width=\"1200\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1-600x396.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1-350x231.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started carrying a handgun on a regular basis, I&#8217;ve tried dozens of different carry guns of all types; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/smith-wesson-mp-9c-review\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,47,21,173,17,221,174,256],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-9mm","tag-concealed-carry","tag-handguns","tag-reviews","tag-self-defense","tag-smith-wesson","tag-smith-and-wesson","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five Years With the Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P 9c - A Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris from the Lucky Gunner team has carried the Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P 9c for 5-years. 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