Yup. Manufacturer has to pony up not only 3 guns for each model, they also have to cough up the dough for the PRK to drop test the damn things as well. And if they drop test a 4" blued GP100, that don't mean you can sell a 4" stainless GP100, they gotta test 3 of those bad boys too. As I recall the cert is only good for 3 years.
I recently went shopping for and bought a Taurus Tracker (big mistake). Wanted one in .41, but they Taurus won't sell them here because there isn't enough demand for the .41 to justify the hoops they gotta jump through to sell them here. So, I got the .44 instead. Yes, even the same gun in different calibers needs to be drop tested seperately.
Nothing more than an attempt to whittle away desire to continue in the gun selling and buying business at both ends. The more hoops they make everyone jump through, the fewer people willing to jump through those hoops.
