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I had gone to quite a few Academy stores looking for an SD40VE and three different employees told me that the SDVE line has been discontinued. I don't know if they are just not going to sell them or if S&W have stopped making them. Anyone else heard about this? Just curious.

By the way I was able to get one from my LGS so now I have both the 9 and 40.

Bill
 
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Hmmm interesting

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Wonder why they would stop making gun that's flying off shelves and gets good press?
 
Yeah, I asked them why it was still online and they said that there are some stores that may have them and will not take it off until they are sold. I asked the person at the gun counter if they could check to see if there were any in the area stores so that I wouldn't have to drive all over town and three different stores told me the same thing.

I agree with them selling a lot but maybe they aren't making the money they want to and believe that if they raised the price they wouldn't sell as many. Not sure.

Bill
 
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I doubt that S&W has discontinued them...they are still listed on the S&W website, and in fact they now have a CA compliant model (10 round mag, LCI, non-microstamped.) If they were discontinuing them, I don't think they'd make a CA model.

Academy Sports may not be carrying them anymore, I don't know..I know you can't ever find one in stock; as soon as they get one it sells. I can't believe they'd stop carrying such a hot seller unless they just can't get them to keep in inventory.
 
I doubt it also. I really like mine and it wouldn't make sense to stop selling a good inexpensive product that is in such demand.

Bill
 
My Academy was sold out last week. I was in there looking for ammo and this guy was asking about two-tone pistols. He was looking at a Taurus (the 92fs knockoff) and I told him to ask about the SD9VE because it's two-tone and a real quality firearm to boot. Lo and behold, they didn't have any in stock.


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I'm not a bean counter but I sincerely doubt a gun that is perceived as both inexpensive to manufacture and sells a fair amount, would be discontinued.

From my layman's perspective, it's a market share ("budget" guns from reputable, world-class manufacturers) that's sizeable and that S&W seems to be doing quite well in.

On the other hand, the M&P line is only ~$150.00 more. One could reasonably argue the M&P's would fill the "budget" pistol slot.
 
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I doubt they will discontinue it for a bunch of reasons.

FWIW: when they discontinued the sigma, they simply took it off the website. We discussed this at great length here in the forum at the time. Keeping an eye on the website is key. i wouldn't hang my hat on anything I hear at Academy. I got mine there, but other than price and convenience there is no other reason to buy there.
 
The most likely answer is that the Academy employees have an order book or online "book" they can order from. They can order whatever they are allowed to for that state. Academy's purchasing dept mgmt has probably made the decision to drop the item, NOT S&W. A store level person ordering is limited to what his home office says he can buy. That's true with virtually every retail chain whether it is guns, food, clothes, etc. Privately owned stores will be the true barometer. If a LGS says he can still order from his wholesaler, then don't worry.

In addition, sku's are usually limited by state or region. That is so that a clothing clerk in Miami can't order a bunch of heavy ski jackets. Your Academy clerk in CA or MA probably can't even order high cap mags even if he wanted to. Just because HE can't order it doesn't mean it isn't available somewhere else.
 
I never believe in rumors.It is being sold in privately owned shops so don't believe it.
 
I agree with everyone's points and I have a theory as well. The ones that told me this looked as though they didn't really know enough to work behind a gun counter and in turn did not know what they were talking about. I took it with a grain of salt but wanted to know if anyone else had been told the same thing.

I believe that they would be able to order these in Texas. Just an opinion.

Bill
 
My lgs sells "the **** out of the sd's"


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Hopefully other manufacturers will take note. S&W put a high-quality product out there at 2/3rds to 1/2 the price of the competition, and stores can't keep them on the shelves! In this economy, price sells guns.


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