Goodbye Smith and Wesson!! You don't get my business anymore.

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Racer X said:
Serious question. In Right to Repair states, how would Ruger or S&W deal with parts requests? The law overrides policy.
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Guns don't have computers, at least not yet. Diagnostic codes & manuals is what spurred that legislation onwards, not parts.

A person could do to a local gun smith & have him order a part, for example. That would make Smith happy as far as liability goes, IMO.

Sad fact of life is, lawyers run almost all gun companies these days.
 
This reminds me when the first Shield was released. Those who loved 40 cal wanted to practice on the range with cheaper 9mm. So people started buying 9mm Shield barrels from S&W for their 40 Shields. Didn’t take them long to figure out what was going on, so they declared if you need a barrel for your gun, the gun must go back to S&W for the install, whether under warranty, or customer pay. This way, S&W wouldn’t put a 9mm barrel in a 40 Shield. In today’s sue happy world where Mickey Dee’s can be sued millions $ for serving coffee that is too hot, they didn’t want 9mm barrels installed in 40 Shield’s blowing up, & making someone a millionaire. This is how this all started. GARY
 
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moralem said:
Just buy a replacement gun, they are cheap enough.
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THIS.

Whenever I find a firearm I really like I buy more than one. Most of my Berettas are 92FS/M9’s and I have plenty of spare mags and spare parts. Same thing with my AR15’s. If one of them were to break, I have others and my hi-cap mags are grandfathered in.
 
N4KVE said:
In today’s sue happy world where Mickey Dee’s can be sued millions $ for serving coffee that is too hot, they didn’t want 9mm barrels installed in 40 Shield’s blowing up, & making someone a millionaire. This is how this all started. GARY
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Not wholly true.

Beretta USA got sued when a dazzling urbanite took his (?) pistol into a college dorm. While showing off to his homies, he dropped the mag & proceeded to pull the trigger. We can all surmise what happened after that.

This happened somewhere in the US NW, I don't recall where or when. This is why we now have billboards on the side of our semi's for the retarded gun buying public.

Tide Pod packages now have (in big letters) "DO NOT EAT" on them. :rolleyes:

These examples on why gun owners should NEVER shirk jury duty. You just never know when you might be able to interject common !@#$%^& sense into a lawsuit, IMO.

My .o2
 
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I don't know what to tell you, man. When things go out of production, parts can get pretty scarce pretty fast. No company wants to tie up a lot of its money in spare parts that might take years to sell or otherwise use when they have bills to pay today.
Your situation is nothing new.

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I just bought new DLC barrels that will work in any Gen 3 - style GLOCK G19 &G17 for under $60 each... Figure I'm good for the (my?) foreseeable future?

Bought one of those FDE 5" M&P 2.0 slides quite a while ago: since I already had the 40 to 9mm 5" conversion barrel, once my machinist friend cut the notch for the 1.0 slide release I was good to go!

Just takes a little planning, folks.

Cheers!

P.S. Comments about buying police trade-ins at rock-bottom prices are RIGHT ON, brothers & sisters!:D
 
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