there's a local gun shop I deal with a good bit close to my house I was in there bs ing with my old 5th grade teacher the other day ,he still remembers teaching me ,my son ,and my daughter (he's retired now works at gun shop mostly as a hobby) and was telling him I recently traded my glock 43 in on a smith&wesson shield 9mm . he was telling me that's also what he carries and that they cant even get them in stock right now . I don't know if this is completely true or not but he was telling me that the shield has been on the market 3 years now and s&w just shipped there 1 millionth shield . WOW that's allot of shields ,has anyone else heard anything like this ? they are a great gun imho I'm very happy with mine . ive only put about 200 rounds through it so far but in my hands its much more accurate than the g 43 I traded in on it .