I just happened to reread that article last night. He was also not enamored of the durability of the locking block design or of the decocker "safety", which he described as so safe it is unsafe.

Quote Originally Posted by JonInWA View Post
As most of us on this forum are probably aware, a year or so back Larry Vickers had an excellent article in Shotgun News detailing the trials, travails, and overall excellence of the M9 pistol in military issue. Other than the magazine issues, the lack of (or, more properly, the lack of adherence to) operator/unit/echelon maintenance and lubrication protocols is a major factor in problems encountered with the M9 pistol-Larry found over-age recoil springs with grossly high round counts and the lack of proper lubrication to be the main, and endemic, causal factors. I believe him.