Aluminum Revolver
The Air Force tried it a while back and they apparently cracked.
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February 22nd, 2016 at 10:20 pm
Smith & Wesson has been making aluminum J-frames in .38 Special since 1951. They can handle +P loads for self-defense situations but not as a steady diet at the range. And no, they will not take being dropped out of an airplane like a 1911 or 92.
February 23rd, 2016 at 12:46 pm
The Air Force or the revolvers?
February 24th, 2016 at 5:08 pm
Clearly the AF effed up when they ordered aluminum cylinders. Almost makes me wonder if they ordered aluminum barrels too!
February 24th, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Interesting, I never knew the USAF had aluminum K frame revolvers. But what a waste, 40,000 revolvers of defective design.
The USAF could have got the same weight benefits by just going to the airweight J frame with the steel cylinder.
February 24th, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Funny story. There is an all aluminum revolver (at least that’s the story) currently in the evidence locker in the NC State Bureau of Investigation.
Story goes that SumDood was robbing places and got caught. They took his revolver and ran the numbers. S&W told them, “That serial number has been destroyed. It was a prototype. There’s only one left, it’s in our museum, serial number 1. We destroyed the one you say you have.”
Turns out that someone stole the gun and it ended up in the hands of a petty crook. The crook was robbing places with a gun that was worth more than any money he could ever have stolen no matter what he stuck up, banks included.
Because of the law at the time, as a firearm used in a crime, the cops could keep the firearm for research, their own use, or destroy it. But they could not lawfully dispose of it by sale, nor could they return it as stolen property. I’m not sure why.
So apparently there are two functional all aluminum revolvers. One in the S&W museum, the other in the NC SBI evidence locker.