S&w Qc
When I was going through the Police Academy in 1970 (man, I'm old) they were issuing us Model 15 Combat Masterpiece handguns. Fifteen of 32 weapons would not fire, new, out of the box. Of the fifteen, our armorer (who had S&W armorers training) was able to get eleven working well. Mine was one of the four which had to be returned to S&W for their kid glove treatment. All four came in a month later in superb shooting condition.
S&W, like nearly all gun companies go through cycles in product quality. Could be the cost cutting measures, perhaps a manpower turnover or maybe the beancounters eliminate or combine some operations to shorten production cycles. Whatever the cause, it seems to be a trap gun companies fall in to even more than most manufacturing operations. The real crime lies in the fact that with guns, someones life may be depending on things working correctly.
When I was going through the Police Academy in 1970 (man, I'm old) they were issuing us Model 15 Combat Masterpiece handguns. Fifteen of 32 weapons would not fire, new, out of the box. Of the fifteen, our armorer (who had S&W armorers training) was able to get eleven working well. Mine was one of the four which had to be returned to S&W for their kid glove treatment. All four came in a month later in superb shooting condition.
S&W, like nearly all gun companies go through cycles in product quality. Could be the cost cutting measures, perhaps a manpower turnover or maybe the beancounters eliminate or combine some operations to shorten production cycles. Whatever the cause, it seems to be a trap gun companies fall in to even more than most manufacturing operations. The real crime lies in the fact that with guns, someones life may be depending on things working correctly.
