My thoughts:
1. Ugly
2. Ruger is 0/2 on its last 2 pistols for recalls.
3. Ruger claims weight savings...only an ounce and a half on the S&W 638 and it weighs .2 of an ounce more than a 340. The LCR website makes multiple claims of these weight savings, such as "extensive fluting of the cylinder," the "polymer fire control housing" (dumb way of saying that they put all the moving parts in the plastic grip for some reason), and the plastic frame, only to be on par with the weight of S&W carry revolvers which have been tried and true for many decades. If you have to machine a bunch of metal out of a your cylinder just to make it weight as much as a airweight, I think there is something fundamentally wrong with claiming that it is an advantage.
4. Why buy a polymer/aluminum/steel revolver? With no appreciable benefits over current competition models I see no need.
5. I haven't fired one but I find it hard to believe that the trigger is going to be any better than the competition. I have however fired an SP and several GPs, and if the trigger is the same out of a box I will stay with a S&W.
6. Unfortunately for Ruger this is going to be just another in a series of recent flops; those being the .480, .327 magnum (still can't figure this one out...if .38 isn't enough get a .357. If you need the sixth round after you fired 5 you either need practice or a miracle), and the SR-9 and LCP recall debacle.
7. Ugly. Everyone will chastise me for this, but I I didn't know any better and had seen that revolver laying on a shelf and seen the plastic I would have thought, "Gee, Bryco/Jennings must have come back to life and entered the revolver business in partnership with Taurus."
--I like the Black/Redhawk lines, as well as the SP and GP revolvers. I also own a p-89 which I wouldn't give up for anything, but Ruger needs to get out of the gimmick business and just focus on making good firearms.