I was able to find out a little info on my gun on Waltherforums from a member jonm there
I did a little research to satisfy my curiousity. What I found is that the SW99QA was replaced by the SW990L. Basically, they took the decocker off; otherwise it's the same gun. This was done fairly early in the SW99s life and it seems that they didn't make a ton of QAs and my best guess is that they had Walther build all of them 100%, because S&W never intended them to be part of the full lineup.
The two rumors that I ran across are that S&W built (or rather, had Walther build) the SW99QAs for the Orange County, CA, Sheriff's Office and the OCSO then didn't take them. The other is that S&W changed the QA to the 990L because they were afraid that a "poorly trained" police officer somewhere might accidentally decock his QA in the holster, rendering it unable to fire when he needed it.
Don't know if there's any truth to either of the rumors, but it does seem that the QAs are all like the OP's, being 100% Walther, and that there weren't a lot of them built compared to the other models.
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