I disagree...I think they can make it better than it was mechanically.
You can disagree all you want, but per usual, you'd be wrong. The M&H design is way too complicated and Uberti knows better than to attempt it.
I just went down the rabbit hole reading about M&H revolvers for a while and there’s a very good thread from a few years ago I’ve at THR. In it a guy who owns and shoots several and has worked doing prototyping and machine work in the past gives his take. And according to him, and I’m inclined to believe it having a decent amount of machine time under my belt and a good understanding of his explanation, it wouldn’t be any real trouble for someone to make. It was made on relatively simple machine tools 150 years ago after all.
He also goes on to explain what happened to the company that was attempting to make a replica and says that Uberti had been approached and showed no real interest. With CAS seemingly kinda stagnant or declining I imagine Uberti would be right to think there probably wouldn’t be enough in it for them to try it.
I still think they’re a neat piece of Americana and I’d love to have one.
I've owned at least two, that I can recall. They're neat old guns, but you can't remake every neat old gun out there. It took YEARS for Uberti to come out with an American, one of THE most significant pistols of the post-Civil War era. Uberti was already making the Schofield, New Model #3 and the Old Model Russian. Arguably the latter two were much less significant historically, than the American, yet it took YEARS to get them to do it. I could be mistaken, but I'm probably not. It would be a very expensive proposition, difficult and probably not sell that well. There are a lot of folks who don't even know what a M&H is.
IMO Cowboy Action pretty well has the bases covered. Anyone wanting to add a Merwin to their outfit can easily find a funked up one and have it re-worked into a shooter, or carefully shoot an heirloom-quality original. As in most things, GG is wrong here.
Merwin's are cool guns and despite what I said, I'd welcome a replica. It just isn't going to get done. Uberti is too smart.