The anecdotes on gun forums always crack me up some, because it's almost always a "buddy's" gun or someone else's gun that has the problems … Not that I don't believe the stories, but it's simply that reports of pistol issues rarely come from those who actually own and shoot the snot out of, the pistol model in question...FWIW, I have eleven year's worth of experience on the range, every month, twelve months of the year, supervising training and qualification of a variety of law enforcement personnel of differing experience levels shooting the S&W M&P -- and while I typically see the common malfunctions fairly regularly (FTRB, FTE, FTF), in almost every case they are shooter-induced (failure to seat magazine during reloads, riding the slide forward, failing to rack slide all the way back, limp-wristing, thumb riding the slide while shooting).