Few months back I've heard somewhere that some of the S&W 4 inch barrel revolvers are actually restricted, not prohibited. I started doing some research on that topic and found that S&W made some of them with a bit (less than 1mm or so) longer barrel back in the days. That was just enough for those wheelguns to be classified as restricted here. I decided to find one...and it took me a while, but as usual the CGN community came to my help. Here is such revolver - S&W model 10-8 with 4 inch heavy barrel. Honest wear, but appears to be fully functional (going to test fire it later this month). Tight action, smooth combat trigger with very nice pull (no surprise there). Barrel is not pinned (10-8 was a transitional model and they stopped making the pinned barrels in 1982 I believe), but this is the last one of the fully forged guns made by S&W in the 80's. It has quite a sentimental value to me. Thanks!
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