wild cat mccane
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and I'm informing, if every 5 year old couldn't pull a revolver double action trigger, it has absolutely nothing to do with safety by design.
They don't make them like that anymore. Tell the truth, yours are all 25 years or older, aren't they?Where are you finding these? Mine have about an 10# smooth trigger pull. MY Model 13 and 686 are in the 6-8# range.
first, Taurus isn't in the same class as a S$W. next, the recoil direction/motion of the S$W is what allows [theoretically] the lock to engage itself. the Taurus lock rotates sideways to engage, their guns simply do not recoil in that direction. in both examples, the built in locks do nothing to help the gun shoot better. I've never seen a video of the lock engaging itself [no video exists anywhere], only a few people have claimed to see it happen. with all the things that can still disable a properly maintained gun, a device made solely for that purpose is not welcome.The S&W lock is greater than half my age.
I have heard zero first hand accounts of issues on the internet where anyone could fabricate a story to prove their hatred for it.
686 triggers are just the same as when they were 686-5.
It's all just internet nonsense.
Interestingly, I have NEVER heard of a Taurus lock EVER locking. Their physical lock is on the hammer.
The S&W internal lock does not require the gun to be loaded to use it.
Sad but true. I have first hand experience as a recent revolver purchase. That lemon got me doing some research. I learned about BOTH the company lack of quality and selling out to gun control politics. I could think about buying from a company with a quality products on the wrong side of my politics. I might support a maker selling low quality crap if they were using the money to support my 2nd A rights. But s&W is wrong on both.S&W went out of business in 2001 as far as I'm concerned. The last new S&W I purchased was a Performance Center pre lock 586-5 L-comp. In 2000.
Even if they didn't have the idiot lock, their designs are ugly and their QA/QC horrendous. Hell, they can't even put the barrels on straight anymore.
I've bought my last S&W and could care less what the current company calling itself s&w makes or does. And I'm not alone in that sentiment, based on customers comments that come into the shop I work in. Regards 18DAI
Tomkins sold out to gun control. How did the current S&W or "AOBC" do so? I'm not being argumentative. If they did, I want to know about it. What I see is they immediately started producing high-capacity M&P pistols, added AR-15's to their product line, added their best-selling Shield to sell millions of pistols to civilian concealed carriers, and besides that, they betrayed all the dealer/retail-level controls that Tomkins had apparently agreed to. Have they transgressed somewhere?