The Revolver Lock Nobody Asked For
BY Herschel Smith
7 hours, 33 minutes ago
Chris Baker does a good job with this video.
Twice he has to say, “But look, I’m not a lawyer.” He should have said, “I’m not a lawyer, my parents were married and I have never eaten puppy meat.”
Anyway, I have S&W wheel guns that do have the lock, but probably wouldn’t have any others. Like Chris, it’s beyond me why S&W would continue to do this in spite of the legal requirement going away.
Chris failed to mention that while S&W was having a hard time financially before this ill fated decision, their choice to include a lock almost killed the company.
And yes, I can ignore the hole (although I’ll probably remove the locks at some point), but it’s wrong to say that wheel gun aficionados mostly ignore it. I can tell you they don’t. Or actually, Chris said regular shooters mostly ignore it – which may be true.
But aesthetics matters. And as for malfunctions, you bet that matters (although I suspect that comes primarily from limp-wristing the gun).
Finally, I’ll remark that it’s duplicitous for the NRA to have done this while at the same time supporting the Clinton era AWB, and before that the NFA and GCA, and the Hughes amendment, and after that the bump stock ban.
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