Part of the difficulty in a Ruger pin not coming out easily relates to the fit of the pin in the frame (should be fairly tight, but not so tight you need pliers to pull it).
We buy aftermarket Belt Mountain pins to get a tighter fit (larger diameter pin), for less cylinder play.
This tighter fit is a GOOD thing.
Part of the difficulty in the pin not coming out easily may be the machining of the pin, the machining of the cross-pin latch piece, and the strength of the latch spring.
All of those have varied markedly in tolerances.
And part of the reason for a pin being harder to move freely CAN be an accumulation of burned carbon & solidified lube in the frame channel.
Which is why we want to be able to get the pin out completely & clean it & its channel.
Ruger for many years used a longer basepin that couldn't clear the frame without removing the ejector assembly.
That was not a benefit.
Colt doesn't do it, the various Colt clones don't do it.
It does help you keep from dropping the pin on the floor, if you're so careless or so unable to pay attention to what you're doing that you can't otherwise just hang onto it, but whatever dubious value you might assign to that "feature" is way overridden for most of us who like to be able to thoroughly clean our Rugers, and prefer to be able to do it without tools & ejector assembly removal.
I was glad to see Ruger shorten their pins where they were starting to do it; there was no real need for them to be that long.
Complaining to them about it wasted their time & was NOT a problem in your gun.
Denis
