It seems like it was just a couple months ago, though it was actually a couple years back, that I was complaining to Smith & Wesson that they needed to bring back traditional high polish blued handguns to their line. For a while there it seemed S&W was only interested in building stainless steel handguns. I like stainless steel for some applications but still prefer blued steel on most of my handguns. You can imagine how pleased I was to see S&W not only is making some blued versions but bringing back some classic designs. The Model 40 “Lemon Squeezer” is a Chiefs Special hammerless variation with a grip safety and is not only available in blue but also in blue with a color case hardened frame and in nickel. Another classic, the Model 22 .45 ACP, was also introduced at the SHOT Show this year.
Regarding this re-issue of the Model 40, it doesn't have the internal key lock at the cylinder latch so does anyone know if S&W has actually deleted it (internally) from this specific model because it has the old style "grip safety" or does the "lemon squeezer" activate the new style internal lock?
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