Posted: 1/11/2026 1:58:59 PM EDT
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Discontinued: Echelon™ 4.5F 9mm Handgun w/ Manual Safety UPC: 706397982195 It came out in Sep. 2024, so it was available for just over a year. Discontinued: Hellcat® Pro OSP™ 9mm Handgun w/ Manual Safety UPC: 706397955441 Discontinued: Hellcat® 3? Micro-Compact OSP™ 9mm Handgun w/ Manual Safety – Firstline UPC: 706397957551 Guess these are collectables now and there probably won't be an Echelon 4.0C manual safety.  Every Springfield firearm I've bought within the last 5 years has been discontinued within 5 years of ownership, so not super pleased about that, but I guess they weren't selling. And with the Hellcat and Echelon it's just the safety variants-- not the lines. |
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Originally Posted By 10mmillie: I can’t say I’m surprised by this. I prefer the non safety versions. Neither am I to be honest. And I would be more than happy to carry the standard non-safety versions myself-- I bought the safety versions mainly because it is the manual of arms that I'm used to, and I just wanted to have a consistent manual of arms. |
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Wow, too bad. I was browsing their site after seeing the Strike Industries PDW chassis coming out for them. Then I learned you can't get a manual safety anymore. If it's a PDW to be carried on a sling it should have a manual safety. They should have designed them in such a way as to easily add an accessory safety for those who want them, rather than as separate models. |
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Originally Posted By Jambalaya: Wow, too bad. I was browsing their site after seeing the Strike Industries PDW chassis coming out for them. Then I learned you can't get a manual safety anymore. If it's a PDW to be carried on a sling it should have a manual safety. They should have designed them in such a way as to easily add an accessory safety for those who want them, rather than as separate models. If you go look at the user manual and look at the manual safety version and non-safety version exploded views, there isn't a huge design change between the two variants (at least as far as I saw in fairly casually looking at those exploded views and the parts lists). I think the issue with the kit would be the partial disassembly of the COG. Sig definitely did a better job with the P365 and the manual safety kit install/uninstall in this regard.  P365- MANUAL SAFETY INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS (PART 1) |
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Not sure why Springfield insisted trying put extra manual safety on polymer pistols over last decades. They had tried it since XD days, never a big seller. The world is trusting Glock style trigger block more than ever, the trigger discipline is far more important than add-on manual safety. Hopefully, Springfield will stop trying on what comes next in their new lines of polymer wonders. |
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Originally Posted By mlin: Not sure why Springfield insisted trying put extra manual safety on polymer pistols over last decades. They had tried it since XD days, never a big seller. The world is trusting Glock style trigger block more than ever, the trigger discipline is far more important than add-on manual safety. Hopefully, Springfield will stop trying on what comes next in their new lines of polymer wonders. ? A lot of manufacturers offer manual safeties on striker fired pistols (or internal hammer fired) even if they offer variants of that pistol that don't have it. I mean Sig ( M17, M18, P365), Smith and Wesson (Shield, Bodyguard, M&P), and Ruger (Max 9, American pistol, Security 9, LCP Max) have been putting safeties on some of their most popular lines for years (though I did notice the RXM does not have the option), so I can see why Springfield would release models with the manual safety-- the Hellcat with the manual safety had also been out for several years before being discontinued. I don't think a manual safety is necessary on a striker fired pistol, but after learning the "1911" manual of arms it really isn't an impediment in my experience either. |