I'm not really sure why S&W even wanted TC. They were not competition and all they did was shut down the interesting side, ie, the Custom Shop.

Jack

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero