but the revolver’s owner or some other person improperly assembled the spring later.
Unfortunately, that sort of thing keeps gunsmiths & factory technicians employed.
Why, I even had one of our issued service pistols returned in a plastic bag in pieces - with a couple pieces missing - because one of our folks thought he could, and should, detail-strip the agency-owned firearm himself. :banghead:
Or that in an emergency the owner forgot that the revolver was locked, and didn't notice the flag...
Granted. Although, that's kinda, sorta like how some folks have forgotten to take a S&W TDA, 1911-style or Browning HP Off-Safe under stress ...
This couldn't possibly happen in one of my earlier non-lock guns... In a defensive weapon, the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principal is golden.
Yep. Agree.
That's why I wish the revolver ILS was an optional feature.
It wouldn't be all that hard to start offering it as an option, providing non-ILS models with a cosmetic plug of some sort ... and then see which models sell the most, ILS vs. non-ILS.
I suspect the ILS, and its ilk, are eventually coming at us somewhere down the road on all new production firearms, at some point, though ...
I've picked up a couple more older S&W revolvers myself, and will probably pick up a couple more ... and plan to keep the rest of my pre-ILS models.
I also like Ruger revolvers.
The sad part is that while I've been a Ruger user since I was young, the last couple of NIB Ruger DA revolvers I've received have both required repair in order to function normally. One required new parts, and the other just required removal of a nasty burred edge that was causing a problem. Of course, I have an early model Ruger P-90 that required a new slide because of what was described as a tempering problem, too.