Originally Posted by
mmc45414
Glad I am not the only dude thinking this. Pretty sure I have bought four of my various M&Ps with the safety, tried to like it, then pulled them out. A few years later I try again, rinse, repeat.
I started looking at the thing and IMO the off side could be cut off and flipped over, and glued/welded to the strong side, and sit just a little lower, and then put the frame plug in the off side. I even went so far as showing it to a local micro weld shop that does NFA engraving but he didn't want to screw with it. He probably saw $150 worth of screwing around and didn't figure I would jump in that deep, back then I probably wouldn't have. Maybe now, but now I have probably a dozen JMCK holsters that are not molded for it. I thought about doing it myself, maybe getting to the point I wanted and then taking it to him ready to weld. Or maybe doing it with JB Weld to test and make sure it falls under my thumb where I want it. Before any of this happened I got distracted by other shiny objects and continued to carry them without, just as I had been with Glock pistols.
In reality, as popular as they are and as good as they are, the aftermarket for M&P stuff is just a sliver of the pie compared to the Austrian brand, and stuff like this not making so much business sense is a consequence.
If anybody else wants to experiment with this I should still have the safety levers around from at least a couple, they will all be 1.0 parts.