I don't agree in the very least that it's a non-factor, Tamara.
As long as it remains in effect, but dormant, it remains a vaulable propaganda tool for antigunners, and a potental bludgeon against the industry.
And contrary to popular misbelief, I don't want to see Smith & Wesson go out of business through corporate suicide. That's why their continued inaction on this front is frustrating and perplexing. The effort needed to officlally break this agreement once and for all at the current time will be much less than the legal wranglings and basketsful of money that will be required under a hostile admistration.
It's not unlike regular maintenance on your car. You fix the small things now, when they don't cost you a lot, instead of waiting for that 29 cent seal to allow all the oil to leak out of your engine, resulting in a $3,000 rebuild.
Which course of action is the more intelligent one?
Then, of course, the Federal Government has already reneged on its stated benefices to S&W, yet the company seems perfectly content with that. As courts have ruled before, a governmental entity not holding up its end of an agreement is no concrete reason for a contract to be voided.