yep they sure are
I'm all for improvement. I don't think anything has really changed in quality.. Also how many guns did s&w make a year back in the good old days versus today 10,000 versus 100,000+(this is exaggerated cause I don't know the numbers)? If say 5% slipped past qc thats 500 bad guns versus 5000 a year. We just get to hear more of it thanks to the interwebs cause the first thing a person does when they get a lemon is vent on the web.