model 410 not american pride

[TK-CAMERON]

I have a model 410 40 cal .S&W ,tell me its a sku 104740, it was made 09/17/1996 & only 20,041 or this sku# were made. that's all S&W info.

It is all metal and and has a 11 shot S&W magazine. Has hammer ,double action 1st shot.

It is not the American pride series which have a sku#,123400 polymer or plastics grips and lower part of pistol. Mine is all metal.

The Am.Pr. has a plastic rod (surrounded by spring under barrel sorry I don't know name of pt). mine has metal rod.

I have pulled up model and sku for mine and both refer to 10 shot clip and AP series.

I'm lost . Since it was made in 1996 should fall under brady bill 10 shot ,but it has 11 .

Can you help ,I have no where else to search.

 

[NINEX19]

In what state are you?

I think the answer you are looking for probably has nothing to do with the gun itself, but rather what magazine capacity is being used.

 

[carguychris]

Since it was made in 1996 should fall under brady bill 10 shot ,but it has 11 .

The Model 410 accepts 11rd magazines from other .40 S&W metal-frame Smith & Wesson models, such as the briefly produced pre-AWB Model 411 and the more common Models 4003, 4006, 4043, and 4046. These mags are very easy to find due to the large number of LE agencies that have dumped these pistols in favor of more newfangled tactical plastic.

If you are not the original owner, it's probable that the original 10rd magazines were discarded by a previous owner.

OTOH if the mag(s) are marked 10rd but accept 11, that's a different story.

[EDIT TO ADD: Also, the 10-round limit was part of the Assault Weapons Ban, technically a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was a previous law passed in 1993 that mandated background checks on licensed-dealer purchases.]

 

[carguychris]

One other nitpick...

It is not the American pride series which have a sku#,123400 polymer or plastics grips and lower part of pistol. Mine is all metal.

All S&W 410 and 411-series DA/SA pistols have metal frames with a wraparound one-piece hard-plastic grip unit that doubles as the mainspring retainer. NONE of these pistols have a frame that is partially made of plastic or polymer.

Previous 1st and 2nd-generation S&W DA/SA metal-frame pistols had separate grip panels and a metal backstrap insert that retained the mainspring, but these guns predate the .40 S&W cartridge. The 41x-series is part of the so-called 3rd generation along with all models that use 4-digit model numbers; all 3rd-gens have the one-piece plastic wraparound grips except for some very scarce Performance Center versions.

S&W has also made .40 S&W polymer-frame pistols in the SW40, SD40, SW99, and M&P series, but these are completely different designs than the 41x-series.

 

[jmr40]

It depends on where you live. If there is a 10 round limit where you live, you must use 10 round magazines. Anywhere else and it doesn't matter.

 

[carguychris]

One other thing...

Forgot to address this part...

The Am.Pr. has a plastic rod (surrounded by spring under barrel sorry I don't know name of pt). mine has metal rod.

This part is called the guide rod.

Although the 410/411 is supposed to use a plastic guide rod, this part is prone to becoming damaged and making the pistol difficult to reassemble after cleaning, and may have been replaced with a dimensionally-identical steel guide rod from a 40xx-series pistol to address this problem. This substitution may have been performed by a previous owner, a dealer, or even the factory if the pistol were sent in for servicing.

If you're confident it's never been switched, it's also possible that the pistol was originally assembled with a steel guide rod because S&W just happened to run out of plastic ones that day. Stranger things have happened.

 

[agtman]

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