How many Smith and Wesson Firearms.....

[sandog]

...... have been made since 1856 ?
Anybody have an idea, give or take a million ?

I was wondering that the other day, and the only thing that came up when I did a google search was the number 7 million.
6 million of the Model 10 M&P provided to law enforcement and one million to the military during the 20th century.

That's just one model. So just how many firearms has the company turned out since before the Civil War until now ?
How many each year just these last few years ?

I called S&W customer service and put those questions to the guy that answered, he just laughed and said he did not have an answer.
I hope this was the proper section to ask.

 

[biku324]

Dunno, but of the pistols in my safe, 80% are S&W.

 

[Laketime]

Well that narrows it down

 

[Breakaway500]

751,438,491 last time I counted..

 

[mrcvs]

The easiest way to come up with some sort of realistic number would be to take how many revolvers were produced, on average, and multiply that number by the number of days since 1852, which is now about 62,000. Except the average daily production is not an easy number to determine. If 100 units daily was the average, tossing out a completely arbitrary number, that would be in excess of 6 million Smith & Wesson revolvers produced since inception.

 

[sandog]

Well we'll have to up the arbitrary number to more than 100 per day, as just the Model 10 was supposed to be in excess of 6 million.

 

[mrcvs]

Well we'll have to up the arbitrary number to more than 100 per day, as just the Model 10 was supposed to be in excess of 6 million.

Like I said, 100 was arbitrary, and too low. 1000 a day seems like a lot under most circumstances. So the answer must be significantly greater than 6 million but significantly lesser than 60 million.

 

[rct269]

Posing this question to Jinks in the SWCA Forum may get a very educated guesstimate.

Ralph Tremaine

 

[Ed4032]

Posing this question to Jinks in the SWCA Forum may get a very educated guesstimate.

Ralph Tremaine

Star Wars Collector Association?

 

[raljr1]

I guess if someone wanted to go thru the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson and record the number of serial numbers used for each frame size and model, you could get a pretty close estimate. I don't care enough to go thru that. Another place to ask that question might be the marketing department at S&W rather than some customer service person.

 

[jeffrefrig]

A lot, I'd guesstimate!

 

[Sevens]

I guess if someone wanted to go thru the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson and record the number of serial numbers used for each frame size and model, you could get a pretty close estimate. I don't care enough to go thru that. Another place to ask that question might be the marketing department at S&W rather than some customer service person.

Respectfully, I don't think that would work... or I should say if that worked, it might work okay up until 1980 or so and then it's no longer viable. The three alpha and four numeric serial numbers absolutely changed that game.