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If you know someone with an account with JSC they have some good specials going


Only A Few Days Remaining To Save $$$ On Smith & Wesson & Walther Firearms, ALL
Firearms At Jobber Cost Except M&P Pistols

How is it they can produce one model with out the stupid lock?

Example:

Save $26.50 on the Model 642 38 Special with NO INTERNAL LOCK, 1-7/8" Barrel, Fixed
Sights, Centennial Style, Stainless Finish, 5-Shot:

SWG103810 - Regular Price $396.50 - Until 2/10/10 Only $370.00


Jerry's Sport Center, Inc.
Forest City, PA
800-234-2612

Maybe I was wrong about the 686 snubby being a good deal at $500. That seems like a heckuva buy. Tax and everything, you still should be well under $450.

You might want to remove all that border from your post. It's stretching things out.

That pistol is the "Lemon Squeezer" with the grip safety, that is why no internal lock.

You're thinking of a different model. The 442 & 642s are Centennial airweight models.

I forget the back story on these "no lock" current production models, but it was discussed at length @ the S&W forum a year or so back when they first hit the scene. If memory serves, a model 37 was also offered. Believe it had something to do with S&W using up an old inventory of no lock frames.

The original Centennial had a grip safety and was dubbed "Lemon Squeezer" after the older break tops that had that mechanism. Smith has also put out some "Retro guns" sans the internal locking mechanism but for premium prices.

Smith & Wesson Models 40, 42, 640, 940, 442, 642, 340Sc, 342Ti and 340PD are all called The Centennial but not all have the grip safety.

The originals were blue:




Some of the new ones are nickled or stainless

All true, but the OP I believe was speaking of the alloy framed 642 model.

To satisfy my own curiosity, I went back and checked my notes about this particular run of no lock models. The quote I received on a model 37-2 with bobbed hammer & no internal lock dates to August of 2008. That's the time frame of when I learned of the spec run 37s & 642s being made w/ out the locks @ the S&W forum.

The ones in your post are stunning. Love the grips and wish I could find some like that. (Maybe I can, haven't really looked)

I have an account with Jerry's, and do not see this special..

Got it by email this morning. Call them.

I love the looks of the nickle.

No grip safety on a 642.

No grip safety on a 340PD either.

MM

The new S&W 40-1 come in blue, nickle, and color case. They are not lightweights and are rated for +P.
http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...parent_category_rn=48302&isFirearm=Y

I bought 4 when I heard that S&W was putting them out a year or so back. They are not the "Lemon Squeezers" and they don't have the useless IL (internal lock).......thankfully.

That is about the same price I paid for each and it is a heck of a deal. Don't expect that S&W will be offering non-IL'd locks on all their models. One other model was offered with no IL's either, but my understanding it was because they had many of the 442/642 frames left over when they caved to the powers that be and installed the IL's........same for the other model of which I can't remember the #.

I'm afraid that when these batches are gone, your opportaunity to buy another non-IL'd S&W firearm will be gone as well. Maybe not, but a bird in the hand.........

Smith is making guns that do not have an exposed hammer like the Centennial models with the option of not having a key lock now. They are in the catalog that way and on the various price sheets. These aren't old frames.