[DavidE]

Well, so much for goodwill from that deal they made some years ago.

My main question is, how are anti-gunners, who do not buy guns, supposed to boycott a gunmaker?

Of course, the other one is, if something is restricted in one place, how does that make it restricted everywhere? Philadelphia, PA has a strict soda tax, but if I sell soda in Dubuque, that doesn't matter.

https://www.pluralist.com/posts/191...unless-they-cough-up-5-million/partners/44450

 

[CaptainGyro]

Ho-Hummm...

Meanwhile, Dick's Sporting Goods recently cited it's restrictive firearms policies as contributing to a 4% drop in annual sales. It's shares dropped 10%.

 

[Snake45]

Well, so much for goodwill from that deal they made some years ago.

With leftists, there is no such thing as a compromise or final deal. Whatever is negotiated just becomes the baseline from which they immediately launch a new push toward their final goal; repeat as necessary.

How many times have you heard "It's a good first step" whenever any new gun law is enacted? Thousands, I'll bet. We're now on Gun Control Step #87 or thereabouts, and yet everything is always only "a good first step."

 

[csmkersh]

Well, so much for goodwill from that deal they made some years ago.

Who, besides me, was part of the "S&W must die," brigade because of the "deal"?

Hogg is just another opportunist. *Beep* him and the horse he rode in on.

 

[Snake45]

Who, besides me, we part of the "S&W must die," brigade because of the "deal"?

About the time that happened, they stopped making anything I'd want to own, so it never really affected me much one way or the other.

 

[bearcat6]

That's straight out of the Jesse Jackson play book. It's called Extortion.

 

[stand watie]

To All,

This is yet another good reason for S&W to flee "Taxatuecatts" & move lock, stock & barrel to Texas.

yours, sw

 

[Javlin]

That's straight out of the Jesse Jackson play book. It's called Extortion.

As the Left continues to reproduce a war of ideology.

 

[Tim Burke]

Who, besides me, was part of the "S&W must die," brigade because of the "deal"?

I was. And when the British holding company that owned them when the deal was struck sold them to an American interest at a loss, I was satisfied.

The people involved had lost their jobs; the owners had lost money and the company.

 

[CaptainGyro]

I was. And when the British holding company that owned them when the deal was struck sold them to an American interest at a loss, I was satisfied.

The people involved had lost their jobs; the owners had lost money and the company.

Me too.

 

[Charlie Petty]

I've debated whether or not I should even comment but I was right in the middle of that whole mess. I had very close ties to S&W at the time and caught a lot of flak when I wrote my column defending S&W.

The president of S&W took all the blame although I can't help but think that their British owners were somewhere in the background.

In any case the president told me it was his decision. I told him he did not understand the market or their customers very well and the public outcry was totally predicable.

Today I have no connections there and everyone I knew has either retired or been fired. It's a very different company now.

 

[csmkersh]

I told him he did not understand the market or their customers very well and the public outcry was totally predicable.

<snip>

It's a very different company now.

While the management as well as ownership has changed, they still make revolvers with those damned holes in the frame for a "Key" to lock/unlock the piece. The only thing truly needed is a brain and keeping your finger off the trigger if you don't intend to fire. When I buy an S&W I buy an old model.

 

[stand watie]

csmkersh,

100% SPOT ON. - Further, I prefer that Colt & S&W models of revolvers/pistols of the 1950-70 era to the latest issues.

yours, sw

 

[csmkersh]

I blundered and sold my 1929 Colt DS to a friend and retired SA cop.

I'm tempted to see if he'll sell it back for a reasonable profit.

 

[Snake45]

Last new S&W revolvers I bought were a 3" M66 around 1989, and a 4" M17 (which was available for a short while after they discontinued the M18 .22 Combat Masterpiece) in the early '90s.

Couple years back I was able to score an older M28 6" to replace (finally) the one I had to sell out of poverty in 1980. I think I'm pretty much Smithed up now.