Smith & Wesson CONSUMER SAFETY ALERT and INSPECTION PROCEDURE FOR M&P SHIELD PISTOL.
Your firearm must be inspected to determine whether it exhibits the condition identified in this notice. To determine whether your firearm is affected by this condition, please inspect your firearm as show in this video.
This Safety Alert applies to all M&P Shield pistols manufactured before August 1-, 2013. We believe this condition is largely limited to recently manufactured M&P Shield pistols. However, out of an abundance of caution, we are asking all consumers of all M&P Shields manufactured before August 19, 2013 to immediately inspect their pistols for this condition.