CZ93X62
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That patent war continued well past the end of WWII. It added two new players--Bill Ruger/Alexander Sturm in 1949 and Gaston Glock in 1985. These later-arriving competitors just about destroyed Colt and have crippled S&W. S&W did themselves no favors with some of their engineering changes in recent years, done in an effort to keep up with Ruger. S&W will lose that race, and decisively. They already lost to Glock, both in court and in the market. S&W has a bad habit of chasing arcane niches when pressured with market competition, instead of continuing with the designs that built the company originally. Colt was saddled with a mechanism that required skilled hand-fitting to construct and gunsmiths in the aftermarket to keep them running. That worked OK in 1920, but the "neighborhood gunsmith" concept was in decline by 1970. Colt's Mk III, Mk V, and Anaconda lines were good, simple designs that were strong and durable--but they arrived 25 years too late.