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S&W was bought out from it's British owners two years ago, and the new owners immdetiately voided the 'deal with the devil' that S&W's British owners entered into with Wee Willy. It is once again an American owned company, and is going to great strides to rehabilitate their image. The people who entered into the sell-out contract were properly punished because they lost virtually all of their value on the S&W sale. The British company paid many millions in the late 80's or early 90's for S&W, and sold it for a mere $5M to the new Arizona owners. And besides that, the boycott served it's purpose. No sane gun company CEO or board will ever think about selling it's customer base out again, and will always point to S&W as the reason. I've never been that huge of a fan of S&W myself (I like their revolvers okay, but their auto's have always left something to be desired), but the sell-outs got their's in the end, and S&W is still a storied American legend.

It is once again an American owned company, and is going to great strides to rehabilitate their image.

They really are. They had reps at a local shop/range here, and they brought all their toys for everyone to actually test fire -- including the 1911 and the S&W .50 Magnum. It's definitely past time to welcome them back into the family.

Wrong. They got out of the boston agreement. Their take on the HUD agreement, but their take on it is that 'there is a republican in office now so it will just go away'. Nothing goes away with the government. Unless it is struck down, president hillary can resurrect it at will. S&W tries to spin this, but the truth still is that the worst agreement, the HUD agreement, still is legally binding.