People were hurt that badly?
Again quoting from memory I don't think injury was too serious.. I seem to remember a few people lost a couple teeth and needed stitches.
I don't know if said teeth was able to be put back in or lost completely.
nothing life threatening but still pretty nasty I guess.
But it wasn't wide spread I think total cases was less then 2 dozen total.
Im sure there was more then 2 dozen guns with the faulty slides but I wouldn't worry to much about it.
If you have a SB or a very early "F" I'd be worried cause I think those was the problematic guns.
Or if you had a early production m9 but I don't think they sold m9 marked guns to the public back then, so those guns are likely long gone.
Apparently there was an investigation into it so I imagine they hunted down the affected m9's.
The problem with the slides is something was wrong with the metallurgy and they was more brittle then they should have been, coupled with hot ammo.. they broke.
I was once told you can check your slide by tapping the barrel against it (while it's field stripped) if it give off a ring it's good, otherwise one side has a crack in it..
I don't do this personally though.
If you do find a crack it will nearly always be where the locking block lugs fit into the slide, that's where it's the thinnest.
Again though, I wouldn't worry about it.
You know how it is in the gun world, everything gets exaggerated and blown out of proportion.