S&W Nerfs the Model SD: Introducing the Model S&W SD40 VE

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In video gaming the word nerf means a changes to a game which reduces the effectiveness of a particular element of a game. Often game designers “nerf” guns which are more powerful in the hands of players than they had intended.
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S&W has just nerfed the S&W Model SD9 and SD40. When this gun was launched in 2010 it was a premium-budget self-defense gun. The company took the budget-priced S&W Sigma and gave it a slightly more modern frame with rail, a black melonite finish, tritium night sights and an improved trigger. It retailed for $530, about $150 more than the Sigma.
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Smith & Wesson have just announced a new generation of the SD9 and SD40 saying “… we have taken the best features of the SD and Sigma pistols and evolved them into a new generation of firearms that meet our customers’ requirement in terms of both functionality and price.”.
What they actually did was remove some of the premium features from the SD9 and SD40, the melonite finish and tritium night sights and drop the price. The SD9/SD40 now retail for just $10 more than the old S&W Sigma.
The Model SD’s old price made the S&W M&P, priced only slightly more, a much better deal. At the new pricing, the Model SD is a better deal than the old Sigma. It is time for S&W to deliver the coup de grâce to the Sigma, a pistol never much liked by the gun community.