Been otherwise occupied.
Michael Bane caught a S&W lock malfunction on video during Shooting Gallery filming. Much as I want a Night Guard 396, I won’t ever buy a Smith with that lock. For over a hundred years, S&W turned out fine double-action revolvers without an ugly, unnecessary, and potentially dangerous integral lock. Last year they did it again, with a short run of lock-free 642s, and I rushed out to buy one.
I look forward to the day they drop the lock entirely and I can buy another.
It only takes a few minutes to disassemble, put a drop of Locktight Black between frame and lock and reassemble.
“…disassemble, put a drop of Locktight…”
It might not be me, but I’d still hate to see some fscking lawyer hold a S&W up to the jury, show them the lock that could have been used and explain how the defendant deliberately tampered with it so it would not work.
By far better if the lock was never there
Keep hitting S&W over the head with a clue-by-4. They’re not exactly “hs precision”, but that does not mean we ought to let them slide.
SM,
I trust you’re also “HS Precisioning” every other company that puts locks on handguns, right?
Do Glock, HK, Springfield, Ruger, Taurus, and Bersa all get the “clue-by-4″, too?
(…and you’d better cool believe that if I had a alloy L-frame .44Spl, I’d disable that lock as soon as I got it, and I’d have no problem justifying my decision in a court of law, either.)