Quote form Handloader magazine in 2001:
"To make sense of the whole S&W agreement, it is necessary to keep a few things in perspective. First, S&W took relatively confidential information from firearms manufacturers' meetings and carried it directly to secret meetings with Andrew Cuomo and Administration lawyers. In signing the agreement, S&W fully expected preferential treatment for firearms contracts (which have failed to materialize), and finally, S&W attempted to spin the media in an effort to sell a bunch of double-speak about the agreement to the general public"
Smith & Wesson was under British ownership and management(Ed Schultz) at the time it attempted to stab both the other firearms manufacturers and American gun owners in the back.
This changed in 2001 when the company was sold back to an American firm for pennies on the dollar.
Jim
