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Originally Posted by Walter Rego
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Perhaps there were no more available, or the Peruvians didn't want to have to purchase all new leather gear, or maybe they just liked the lighter K frames.
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Also (I had to look this up) S&W was in the midst of some reliability problems which led to a recall of the L-frames in 1987. The hammer and hammer nose were replaced, reworked frames got a "M" overstamp, there was a dash 2 engineering change to the L-frame, etc... the K-frame Model-19 may have seemed like a safe bet.