[HogKiller]

You are headed down the wrong path... Rather than intentionally defeat or bypass the built-in grip safety on your firearm, you should just get a different firearm. FYI: modified firearms cannot be re-sold. With the Springfield XD's (XD/XDM/XD Sub Compact) the grip safety is also part of the weapon tear-down -- in order to dismantle the weapon and remove the slide, you need to activate the grip safety. You also need to activate the grip-safety in order to chamber a round.

Defeating the safety is a bad idea -- not only are you mucking with the engineering and the fundamental design, you are voiding any warranty and probably interfering with some Federal laws -- you really ought not mess around as some modifications are completely illegal -- also -- playing with the safety may alter the firearm and you could un-intentionally end up making yours into a fully-automatic firearm.

Best advice: Don't do it... buy something else instead.

Agreed, I've fired a lot of rounds during training and under timed testing and have NEVER ever had a problem with the Xd. I absolutely fail to understand how you can have a proper grip and NOT have it work.