The EC9s is very similar to Ruger’s earlier single-column LC9, which was originally designed to serve either as a primary citizen-carry tool or as a full-power, full-featured, no-compromise backup for off-duty law enforcement officers. The main difference is the EC9s’s sights are integral to the carbon-steel slide. They are machined right into it. The EC9s is larger and heavier than the company’s LCP pistol, and that gives the EC9s more grasping surface and weight for better controllability when firing stout 9mm ammo. In size, the EC9s is 6.0 inches long, 4.9 inches tall (with the finger-extension magazine baseplate), and 1.07 inches thick at the thumb safety. The slide is 0.9 inch thick and so is the grip. Grip circumference is 5.0 inches. The pistol weighs 17.2 ounces and fits in the hip pocket of my jeans just fine.
