Do you know that it doesn't? I'm not arguing I just genuinely don't know the ins and outs of all this because I'm not a lawyer.
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I don't know one way or another. All I've ever seen has been the press release from 2000.
It is dumb as hell. The IL lock is the same on every gun. At least the free trigger locks have different keys. But "dumb" has never made no difference to management of most companies.
Smith and Wesson is still a publicly traded company, right? Consider the optics of explaining in a shareholder’s meeting why, after almost 20 years, you deleted a “safety feature” from one of your popular lines of handguns. Could they? Yes. Do the vast majority of revolver buyers give a shit about it? No.
I had a J-frame spontaneously lock itself while shooting, so you're preaching to the choir about how stupid the lock is. It's just that it isn't clear to me that they could make an executive decision to stop putting the lock in all guns, even if they wanted to. My understanding is that its some sort of "settlement," which suggests to me that they have some kind of obligation to continue to do it, but I can't find any real details.
Back to the new Colt's. Haven't seen the weight on this guy and are they actually "in the wild"?
This looks like a new woods loafing fun gun. If it shoots as good as my new Cobra it will see a lot of use.
FFS, nobody gonna do pics? Used to be some standards around here...just sayin.
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Jenkies Scoobie, those are some yuge pics!
Funny you should mention that. I was just trying to find a weight for the King Cobra Target, to no avail.
Colt lists the 2", fixed sight model as 26oz. So even with two more inches of tube, it would come in well under my 4" GP100. At 40 oz. it weighs as much as an N-Frame...
They do not appear to be in the wild yet.
The 3" King is listed at 28oz. I can tell you that the King feels absolutely miniature next to my 4" NY-1 K, since I just shot them side-by-side earlier this week. I really like the new Colts.
If I was a betting man, I’d guess the specs on the 4.2" to be 32.5-33oz when they come out. Time will tell.