It is interesting to note that pistols use various style features that go in and out of vogue. For example, take the square or hooked trigger guard. For the better part of the 20th Century, all pistol makers furnished their guns with various kinds of rounded trigger guards. But in the 1960s, a shooting stance came into common use, a two-handed stance where the index finger of the support hand went to the front of the trigger guard and pulled back. Supposedly, this produced a more positive grip. Those who study shooting technique in meticulous detail were able to determine that this technique was not as stable as using three fingers on the butt. However, enough folks were doing the finger forward stuff that makers started making their pistols flat or hooked forward. Slowly, this is going away, as evidenced by the introduction of the Smith & Wesson Military & Police model auto. This gun doesn't have a squared trigger guard, mostly because its designer is a shooter and he knows that serious shooters just don't shoot that way.
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