Ruger Customer Service replied to my question:
Manufacturing purposely makes them a tad long so that we never fall below minimum barrel length specs.
I don't buy that. It still doesn't address a 1 7/8" barrel on a snubbie. And if they advertise my SP101 to 3 1/16, and it actually measures out at 3 1/32, I might still cry foul and demand a refund. [I wouldn't, but somebody might.]
Manufacturing purposely makes them a tad long so that we never fall below minimum barrel length specs.
I don't buy that. It still doesn't address a 1 7/8" barrel on a snubbie. And if they advertise my SP101 to 3 1/16, and it actually measures out at 3 1/32, I might still cry foul and demand a refund. [I wouldn't, but somebody might.]