I've shot a couple and liked them, but I would wait until the real market uses them for some time to pronounce them better than the rest. Might be a NJSP/SW99 fiasco in the M&P's future?
The Glocks are good guns. They have issues (all do), but they have also been issued by the FBI, DEA, and USMS for several yrs now. Going to take sumthin' like that to make a believer outta me.
The walking pin and peening sound familiar. The early Glock 40s did the same. The walking pin was fixed early on, the peening just recently. The Glock peening did not matter; don't know yet if the M&P peening matters...
Extensive T&Es are nifty, but even then ya takes your chances... Beretta beat all comers in the 94 and 99 INS/BP trials. SIG and HK beat all comers in the 04 DHS trials. I know ICE/CBP guys w the new SIGs and HKs who would rather have Glocks regardless of what the trial results were...
Viva la differance!
Get what ya like, or flip a coin and like what ya get. ;)
BTW, S&W has contracted to sell over 70,000 Sigmas to the US Army for use by allies in just the last year or so. I would say that's "selling like hotcakes".