That's true to a degree, it's not considered public as only available to Active Duty & Retired Military, and not general public. If your entry info sent and post marked prior to midnight 31 December they made the cut. It was suggested to me when I talked to rep and another here on forum, IIRC, that this may happen next year but with different time frame.
Also inludes/included active and retired police, fire and EMS.
No it was only as I said and if you like I will email you the form for you to read, but I think someone has posted a copy. I says
Hats off to S&W for providing a break to those who currently serve and served honorably until retirement.
Starting to wish I'd stayed the extra 10 years.......
On second thought, nope.
I remember the thread but I thought it was corrected or retracted. But since search engines seldom work for me I didn't do a search. I hope it was true or at least they did one earlier for the EMT, LEO & FF people.
Your math is suspect, I know dealer cost at both a large dealer and small dealer and the 40% below MSRP is on average about 10% back of their cost, but sometimes could be cost because of special deals to some retailers like Davidsons or others. My friend called (he's a stocking dealer for Glock, Springfield, Beretta, Sig S&W and others, and carries a about 3 million dollar inventory of guns with over a million in sales last year and he says my price on the 41 is just a shade under $100 less then he can order one. He has one ordered but has no delivery date and he said he was told 90 to 120 days delay. I was told 60 for mine and his was ordered in early November and as of yet to show up. He also said if a small shop that orders just 1 or 2 S&W a month from someone like Zanders the price will be about 15% better then that small dealer.
