#SingleStack9mm

The single stack 9mm market hasn’t completely gone to the wayside yet. Springfield Armory recently introduces new optics-ready versions of their XD-S MOD.2 pistols in an effort to meet the demands of modern concealed carriers. I was able to receive a copy of the Springfield XD-S MOD.2 OSP pistol in 9mm and in their 4-inch barrel configuration and with this review, I wanted to set out into a realm of handgun performance I hadn’t really spent all that much time with in the last couple of years. Why? Well with the introduction of modern micro-compact 9mm pistols, there really hasn’t been a need for me to pick up a compact single-stack 9mm in a long time but I had the feeling that many people still probably preferred their older single-stack 9mm pistols and might want to have carry-optics capabilities but keep largely the same gun.

Massad Ayoob has taken a look at the Glock 43, over at Glock headquarters in Smyrna, Georgia:

Glock has been hinting over the past couple of days that something big is coming this Spring – something which many feel can only be a single-stack subcompact 9mm Parabellum offering. The Glock promotional images thus far released via their Facebook page seem to support this, one showing a short spring of a similar length to that used in the Glock 42: