It arrived today. Looks just like the pictures show. Got a few extra 17rd and 21rd mags for it, and picked up a threaded barrel from AIM Surplus for it.
Well, unbeknownst to me, there are two types of barrels and slides for the P320's - one that has "LCI" (loaded chamber indicator) and one without. Apparently, my P32 M18 has the LCI on it. Of course, the threaded barrel I got doesn't have that.
Appears that my options are:
1 - Return the barrel and eat return shipping costs and restock fee (or try to sell on the EE).
2 - Find someone I can pay to machine the LCI cut in the barrel I got for less than ~$30 (less than the cost difference to sell this barrel and buy a new one WITH the LCI cut)
3 - Remove the LCI from the slide.
Yeah, I know there are other options - but I am not going to buy another slide or another P320.
I've heard that Option 3 will work, but comes with some caveats in that shooting the gun expels a lot of carbon and debris out that, now open, LCI cut right onto the lens of the red dot - and that it's not an insignificant amount of it such that it requires wiping it off after a handful of shots.
Wonder why some have the LCI and some don't. New versions versus old? Or only on specific models? If so, why?