The slide is stainless steel treated with Nitron, making it appear black.
[a] Units come with a holster, safety loop lock, magazines, and flush baseplate.
Prior to the restrike capability redesign, a misfire required that the shooter retract the slide to reset the trigger disconnector in order to attempt to fire a cartridge that failed to ignite on the first attempt.
Some other elements were redesigned also including the grip beavertail area, added finger support on the magazine baseplate, a reshaped magazine release and slide hold-open lever.
[4] These handguns can be found with one or two magazines, holster, accessories and sometimes extra grip panels.