I am serious, go to a gun shop of any consequence and ask them how long 9mm shields stick around. It's stupid but they still sell like mad, they're often slightly cheaper than the
other guns you mentioned, for starters. I'm not talking mass bullshit, either. Right now they are struggling just to keep products on peoples shelves with the demand going
on. Expecting new product rollouts from, well, anyone this year is wishful thinking until demand starts to really get saturated.
Smith often has a somewhat different buyer demographic, anyways. The fact that they don't have RDS garbage on
every gun doesnt hurt them very much. half of their demographic is
fanbois. I mean look at the BG380. The fact that they still sell it and are not ashamed by it, leads me to believe the S&W glue fume sniffers are pretty hardcore. Years ago I never
believed they exist, but now I've seen it with my own eyes...
on several occasions. It's a big part of their base. I mean all gun brands have branding faggotry but smiths is
actually pretty significant.