2 Jan 2022 4:13 pm
As far as I am concerned, the question is "is the magazine a piece of the gun?" The rest of it is all grade school one-upmanship and silly quibbling.
Not knowing the answer, I went to S&W at
https://www.smith-wesson.com/customer-s ... rs-manuals
and downloaded two manuals:
https://snwcdnprod.azureedge.net/sites/ ... 156_nc.pdf
and
https://snwcdnprod.azureedge.net/sites/ ... nual_0.pdf (from which I got the information and quotes below)
In MODEL AND FEATURES IDENTIFICATION it identifies the magazine as part of the gun. There is even a very nice picture of the gun with all the parts labeled, which includes the magazine. Look for yourselves.
In LOADING, I quote
"Smith & Wesson has provided you with a magazine designed to operate in your specific model of pistol.
While your magazine may be able to be inserted into another model pistol, it will only function properly in the specific model for which it was designed.
Do not interchange magazines from one model pistol to another model pistol."
In FIELD STRIPPING/DISASSEMBLY the first step is removing the magazine.
That was enough for me. The magazine is a piece of the gun.
The most relevant point IMHO is where S&W states, "Smith & Wesson has provided you with a magazine designed to operate in your specific model of pistol." The magazine was designed for a particular pistol as stated by the manufacturer, yet I am supposed to believe it's not a piece of the gun because some folks don't like BV. meh.
Game. Set. Match.
Have a great 2022.
The quibbling can recommence.
Not knowing the answer, I went to S&W at
https://www.smith-wesson.com/customer-s ... rs-manuals
and downloaded two manuals:
https://snwcdnprod.azureedge.net/sites/ ... 156_nc.pdf
and
https://snwcdnprod.azureedge.net/sites/ ... nual_0.pdf (from which I got the information and quotes below)
In MODEL AND FEATURES IDENTIFICATION it identifies the magazine as part of the gun. There is even a very nice picture of the gun with all the parts labeled, which includes the magazine. Look for yourselves.
In LOADING, I quote
"Smith & Wesson has provided you with a magazine designed to operate in your specific model of pistol.
While your magazine may be able to be inserted into another model pistol, it will only function properly in the specific model for which it was designed.
Do not interchange magazines from one model pistol to another model pistol."
In FIELD STRIPPING/DISASSEMBLY the first step is removing the magazine.
That was enough for me. The magazine is a piece of the gun.
The most relevant point IMHO is where S&W states, "Smith & Wesson has provided you with a magazine designed to operate in your specific model of pistol." The magazine was designed for a particular pistol as stated by the manufacturer, yet I am supposed to believe it's not a piece of the gun because some folks don't like BV. meh.
Game. Set. Match.
Have a great 2022.
The quibbling can recommence.