I am still not quite sure what supposed "advantages" for making a race gun have anything to do with normal use for home defense and carry.
In thinking about home defense and carry, I don't assume that my first shot would always get the job. So I care about how fast and accurately I can get off the second and third shots, and so on. Everything I'm talking about (except perhaps the safety, though I can make a case that a DTF frame safety encourages a better grip) relates directly to that.
If you don't think the speed and accuracy of the second shot matters, then sure.
for many of us it works just fine, or superior to "modern" platforms like the supposedly universal G19...I take shooters to the range and we fire all of their cool striker guns,
Not really relevant to my comments. I'm explaining why the previous steel-framed Smiths would have a hard time taking market share from existing current-production steel-frame hammer-fired guns.
I would even agree they are perfectly adequate for most uses. I'm just saying the market already has better options in it.
ETA: Also, I am totally cool with people liking older designs as a matter of personal taste. I still have a Browning BDM, which has nearly all of my complaints about the S&W steel frames, plus a couple of others! I like it. But I wouldn't expect it to do well in the market if re-released... at least not without fixing a whole bunch of stuff. But it is a cool design, and I'm keeping mine.
Likewise, I think DC-3's are cool airplanes. My grandfather flew one. I'd love to have one. It would make about zero sense for Boeing (who bought McDonnel Douglas who had merged with Douglas who made the DC-3) to start cranking those out again, though. Among twin-engine light- to medium-haul cargo and passenger planes, a million better-performing options fill the market. It's a cool machine... but it couldn't take market share from anything today. For precisely the same reasons, while I actually kind of like the old S&W 3rd gen guns, they'd struggle to take market share if put back into production.
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