How To Take Apart A 9MM Handgun

Video Transcript

"Okay. On this 9mm semi automatic, on this weapon system there's a tad bit difference in the way that it is taken apart or disassembled. Some of them have a lever that slides down like the 40 caliber in my last series. This one doesn't have that. This one here is more of a line up type of attitude. If you notice on this side of the slide catch, you have a pin here, which is part of the slide catch. What's needed in order to take this weapon apart is first again, make sure the weapon is clear and safe, release, decock it. What I'm going to do is start slightly pulling the slide to the rear until I get to a certain point where I can push that little tab and it starts just to come out. Once I remove that pin, I place it there and just like before I remove the slide from the lower receiver. As we look at this, there's not much difference in the 40 caliber with the guide rod and spring and the barrel and the slide as to the lower receiver of this firearm. The difference is the way it was taken down. Instead of turning it down and pulling the slide to the rear and releasing it, this one here you have to push from the opposite side to get it started, but the weapon has to be at a certain point in order to relieve the pressure off of it to be able to remove it. That there is how you disassemble this particular style of 9 mm semi automatic handgun."