When my Dept. finally implemented a patrol rifle program, since I'd been clamoring about it for years and had been the loudest, I got to do it. And we went with the S W. I gotta say, giving that thing to a batch of rookie riflemen, I had trepidation. BUT... we had ZERO issues with the 60 or so we handed out/trained on that wasn't either shitty mag related, or operator error. The rifles, themselves, were just fine. YMMV, but in my experience, they're good to go.