What handgun would you like to see made that would make money?

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That is, money for the company manufacturing it.

Someone should make a double action topbreak revolver in some cartridge widely available. It could be either pocket size or full size.

It could be .22LR, .22 magnum, .38 spl, .357, .44 magnum, .45 Colt or even moonclip the auto cartridges that you can buy at Walmart (9mm, 45ACP, .40/10mm).

Oh, and don't screw it up with any stupid locks or other such useless and unsightly lawyer engineering.
 
If they could sell enough to make a profit on it they would be making it now. You and 5-6 other people are probably the only ones who would want a top break revolver.
 
I must be one of the 5 or 6. It seems to me there is quite a bit of interest out there in a modern top break. I am by no means qualified to guess whether one of good quality could be made to sell profitably at a reasonable price, but I'd sure like to see it. .45 Colt would be my first choice of caliber.

gary
 
My 10 y.o. son:

"I wish Glock made a .22"

"A revolver that shoots 5.7 (x28, FN) would be really cool!"

There you have it :D:D
 
Too bad whoever is running s&w doesn't have the brain of a ten year old so they would get rid of those stupid locks.
 
I'd probably buy a top break.
My understanding is that they can't handle high pressures as well as other designs (I could be wrong), but it would make a pretty cool .22 target pistol.
Other than that though, I have so many guns that I want that are in production, I haven't really thought about guns that aren't being made.
 
Springfield XDS in 9mm with 6+1 capacity at a price point around $400-450.--that would make money for sure.

M&P 10mm I think it would make money, but I'm unsure of the 10mm market demand.

I'd also like to see a reputable company make 9x18 full power JHPs that don't cost over $1/per round. I think that would make all the surplus 9x18 guns a much more viable SD gun. That's my $.02--you get what you pay for ;)
 
I've been reading notes here and there for years suggesting there is a market for top-break revolvers. They certainly had a long run first time around. One thing you might note, however, is that none of the cartridges mentioned in the original post were ever chambered in a top-break, except for .22 rimfire. I'll bet the last top break made in this country was a .22.

I understand that a version of the Webley is still made by whoever bought the equipment.
 
A pair of single-shot dueling pistols,,,

I would like to see a set of pistols marketed especially for plinkers,,,
Break-open action like the old Stevens .22 pistols.

Chamber the guns in .22 LR and market the pair for around $300.00.

There is one pistol made today that's similar to what I have in mind,,,
It's a Rossi break-open action pistol in .45/410 & .22 lr.

I finally got to shoot one of these earlier this year,,,
The .22 barrel is very accurate but the whole gun is clunky and heavy,,,
I realize they had to make the frame strong enough for the Colt and .410 cartridges.

Someone like H&R could whomp up a .22 pistol like this that isn't prohibitively heavy,,,
If they made one for less than $200 like a lot of their rifles are,,,
I would probably buy a pair of them for plinking.

Whether they sell or not would be all in the marketing campaign/strategy,,,
And that's the one thing that the specialty gunmakers never seem to do properly.

A wooden box to hold two pistols would only cost them about $5.00 to have made in a 3rd world country,,,
Then a strategy built on nostalgia such as a picture of a older man and his grandchild,,,
Maybe I'm a bit of a romantic but I see guns like this selling nicely.

Aarond

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Well, you ask for it. One with a telescoping barrel with a varying length of two inches out to 8 inches.
 
I think S&W should bring back the old K-32 in 32-20 or in the new 327 Fed magnum with barrels of 4, 6.5 and 8 3/8"
Guns not for the CC market, not for the police market, but for the Outdoorsman. Make them all from steel, but in slim contour.

I also think Ruger should make it's GP101 with a 6" long skinny barrel in a 32 and also in a 22LR

Yes! Glock should bring out a 22 LR
A Springfield XD in 22 would also be a good seller.

I know this is a handgun forum, and the question is about handguns, but I’ll touch on this here because the idea was put forth for the FN 5.7 cartridge to be made available in different guns. To my way of thinking the gun/cartridge it’s offered in now is all someone could want in a small high velocity handgun but for the very high price.
However I think the cartridge is missing its calling
Savage, Ruger, Mossberg, someone! Should make a farm and garden RIFLE is that shell. It’s basically a 22 R.F. Mag ballistically, and would serve the same functions, but with ammo that can be reloaded. That makes it cheap to shoot.
Either that or bring farm and garden rifles out in the Russian 5.45 shell. It costs only about 14 cents a shot with military ammo and you can get SP ammo for it too with Hornady bullets if you don’t mind the price of that ammo. A few boxes of the soft point stuff for around the farm and a few CSES of military ammo for fun away from the buildings and livestock----you’d have a very good easy to shoot flat shooting CHEAP and accurate combo
 
I don't see why Colt doesn't bring the Python back. Used Pythons are selling for more than double what they went for new. If people are willing to give that much for a used one, I doubt Colt would have any problems selling enough new Pythons to make money. It would also be the only way I would buy one because, although its a nice gun, I refuse to pay some greedy seller close to triple what they paid for the same gun new 20 years ago when I can go buy a new S&W that I would be just as happy with for a third of the used Python price.

On a side note, there is a Russian company that makes a top break .357 magnum so it is possible to build a top break revolver that can handle a higher pressure caliber.
 
I wish Colt would bring back ANY double action revolver. I also wish all brands would roll mark their products better. No laser ser#, no lawyer warnings, and no stupid locks. I also miss the beautiful blueing that was once standard.
 
Used Pythons are selling for more than double what they went for new. If people are willing to give that much for a used one, I doubt Colt would have any problems selling enough new Pythons to make money.
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If they were selling new ones, there would be no market for used ones. When Winchester stopped making model 70's with CRF in 1963 prices went crazy since the only option for getting one was to buy used. Now that they are now making new rifles with CRF prices of pre-64's has dropped significantly.

I don't see that happpening with the Python. Full size 357 revolvers are not big sellers anymore. Hunters are using bigger guns and calibers, CCW folks are using small revolvers or semi's and the general SD handgun of choice is overwhelmingly the full size semi-autos.

The tooling and machines to make many of these guns has long ago worn out. It would cost hundreds of thousands just to gear up to make these guns and tens of thousands would need to be sold just to break even.

While there are many guns I'd like to see, I understand it is not economically feasable. That is why custom gunmakers are in business.

Many of the suggetions of using existing guns and offering them in different chamberings or barrel lengths is feasable, even with limited runs. But not gearing up for a brand new gun.
 
As I'm a hardcore revolver person I also believe that Smith and Wesson is the end all be all of revolvers, I'm sure that the return of the M-19/66 would be a huge seller. As so many others have said, the M-19 is everything you need in a revolver and nothing you don't need.
 
There's always a market for used guns and that fact creates pressure on new gun prices, or alternatively, creates pressures on the new gun market. If there are a lot of a given model on the used gun market, say, because of a lot of police guns suddenly available, then it makes it harder to sell the new gun at a given price. At the same time, oddly enough, the very same thing helps to keep used gun prices low.

Another way to look at it is, the more of any given new model that is sold, the lower the prices will be on used guns of the same model when they begin to hit the market. Perhaps eventually there will be a collector's market for them but no time soon.

Someone mentions why the big manufacturers don't make certain models from the past and since they don't, it keeps the custom manufacturers in business. Both Colt and S&W have so-called custom shops but you would think they would try to expand those lines to compete with the so-called custom manufacturers, as well as the foreign copiers (which I imagine would be difficult). It is entirely possible that Colt and S&W, at least among handgun manufacturers, have trouble finding the necessary skilled labor. Remember also, there used to be other manufacturers of very high quality firearms like Hi-Standard that are no longer around (as well as producers of much cheaper firearms) simply because the market no longer exists, apparently.

One might think that perfect finishes used to be standard but that was hardly the case with some lines. Many S&W revolvers did not come with a high gloss blue finish but rather more of what I call a satin finish. It was still a nice finish but hardly beautiful blueing. Besides, that beautiful blueing you used to see on Pythons really showed scratches.

For what seems like a relatively brief period about, oh, fifteen or twenty years ago, S&W was coming out with a new model revolver every month or so. No doubt they sold easily enough but there is such a thing as a product life cycle and it will run its course. However, even were some models to be reintroduced, they still wouldn't be the same. But I don't blame anyone for wishing. Remember at one time there were no new single action revolvers available. It was an antique design and even Colt had dropped them. Even Beretta makes one now.
 
I’d like to see Ruger start with their heavy barreled .22 caliber MkII platform and make it into a .32 wad cutter target pistol. I don’t think it would be hard to do, and I think it would sell if they could keep it below $600. I know I’d buy one.
 
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