Yeah, I am not a fan of the manual thumb safety. I mean, I tolerate it on my 1911 because I realize that it has an external hammer and that's how you carry a 1911 (locked & loaded), but for a sidearm with an completely internal firing mechanism, it seems unnecessary and added simply to grab some of the market (departments that require their sidearms to have thumb safeties). As such, I think only those people should buy that kind of XD, I like to keep it simple, keep the trigger and internal safeties of Gaston's Glock-block and the grip safety/beaver tail of the 1911. Ah... perfection, "XD Perfection", "Glock insurrection"... :crown:
XD's RULE, Glocks are for FOOLS! :lol2: