I have the Springfield XDE 45 3.3 which yeah I know, it’s a 45 not a 9 mm but at least if you get one with a 3.3 inch barrel, it’s pretty much the same pistol that I have that’s chambered in 45.
It’s a good little pistol, nice thin profile and as far as carrying it inside the waistband, I guess that might work if you wear your pants one or two sizes larger than what you would normally wear because I don’t know if you’re familiar with it or not, and I’m not sure what the size comparison is for that Smith & Wesson that you have but if you’re familiar with the Beretta storm PX4 compact, it’s about that same size just narrower because these are only single stack pistols as opposed to that being a double stack.
I can’t speak much for inside the waistband carry because I got tired of carrying that way and that was even with a much smaller and thinner Ruger LC9S so I’m not the best one to elaborate about how this pistol would feel carried that way because I carry my XDE in a pocket holster in my front pocket when I’m at work because my front pockets are large enough to do so but whenever I go out on the town somewhere to shop or whatever for a personal business, I’ll pocket carry this little pistol in my shorts because the pockets are large enough but once wintertime sets in, I have an outside the waistband pancake holster that’s made out of kydex that actually conceals really well.
But not trying to talk you out of it, but if you feel that you need a safety on your pistol, I would say you’re almost just better off to go with a striker fired pistol with a safety because in my opinion, if you don’t want to take full advantage of a DA/SA pistol that allows you to carry safely without a safety at all or with the safety off, you’d probably benefit better from a more consistent and easier trigger pull. You’d probably also have a lot more choices to choose from also since it seems like good ole hammer-fired DA/SA pistols are becoming a lot less easier to find since so many people want striker fired guns.
Me personally, I’m a fan of my Springfield XDE because it’s hammer fired, it’s double action/single action and it allows me to carry it with the safety off, even though it has a safety. That, and because it’s a single stack like I wanted and since Beretta doesn’t have a PX4 that is single stack, that’s why I chose the XDE as my new carry pistol.
Quite honestly, if there was a way to remove the safety all together and make this pistol like all three of my Beretta storm PX4s are that don’t have safeties, just the decockers, I would do it but since they don’t make a kit to do it, I really don’t even worry about it because the safety lever on the Springfield is so low profile, I don’t even mind it.
I did at one time but it didn’t take me long to where I didn’t care to have a safety on a carry pistol just because of the known fact that when you’re in a sudden stressful situation, you can always guarantee that you’re going to remember to take that safety off before you have to use your pistol. But see, the other thing, with my carry pistol bring used to be that Ruger LC9S, it was a typical striker fired pistol and I wouldn’t carry one of those without a safety because in my mind they’re too prone to accidental discharges. But since not having a safety was more important, that’s when I decided to back to the stores for a new carry pistol because over the years, I’ve learned to appreciate the benefits of a double action single action hammer fired pistol. You can ride the hammer with your thumb when you holster or take it out of a holster; you can’t do that with a striker fired pistol unless you buy a Glock and you buy that special aftermarket device that goes on the back of the slide that allows you to temporarily disconnect the mechanism that’s attached to the striker as you holster it with your thumb pressing on it but that thing is really only designed for Glock pistols. Sure, the double action single action trigger was tough to get used to but once I got used to it, I like the fact that as long as my pistol is not cocked, I like how my first shot will always be that longer, heavier trigger pull because that’s just a lot harder to pull if it ever got snagged on anything. And if coupled up with the fact that I can press my thumb against the hammer, if the trigger was to ever snag on anything, you’ll break the trigger off before the trigger throws that hammer back to fire the gun.
But AnyWho as I said, I’m not trying to change your mind because the Springfield XDE is designed to satisfy a lot of ways to carry which means that if you want to carry with the safety on, you can and you can even do that with a hammer cocked or decocked. Or you can carry it the way I do which is hammer decocked and safety off.
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