So CA and MD are Colt's biggest markets for the Python? Colt's marketing strategy is to muck up the trigger pull for 48 other states and the rest of the free world to satisfy the CA and MD drop test requirements?
CA is the biggest market for everything, they have nearly 40 million people. In 2014 (or was it '15?) I was at a lunch with the then CEO of S&W, and he informed me that California was 39% of S&W's total sales. You can't ignore that.
So I'm basing my statement on what he shared with me. If CA means that much to S&W, it's likely Colt is in a similar situation. After all, Colt doesn't really have any handguns that are NOT on the CA list. So Colt may even get more of their share from CA (again, speculation but I'm betting I'm not far off).
