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I got it in the original case, with all original early 90s paperwork goodness, including the warranty card and manual.
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Yup, I got a brand new S&W Model SW9F Sigma! This gun left the factory in August 1994, less than a month before the Clinton AWB was enacted. This gun was old inventory of an old gun shop in Minnesota of all places and was thrown on Gunbroker by a pawnshop that purchased the old shop's old inventory.
I paid under $300 for it and that included the shipping and transfer fees.
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The story behind the Sigma's goes like this. Big Blue was broke and losing market share to GLOCK, S&W's CEO at the time slapped a GLOCK 17 on the table during a meeting with the company's engineers and said "copy the motherfucker." So, copy the GLOCK 17 they did.
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For the most part, it is a GLOCK clone. While not 100% the same, it is clearly a GLOCK clone. The SW9F was only made between 1994 to 1996. S&W ceased production of the SW9F due to an out of court settlement with GLOCK and the release of the SW9/40V line, which later evolved into the SW9/40VE line.
Here is Ed Shultz, then S&W CEO, shows off a working prototype of an smart-gun .40 S&W chambered SW40VE. semi-automatic handgun in 2000.
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Why did I want this? Because it will go nicely with my other retro striker fired polymer framed 9mm pistols.
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But, to not leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. Here is another recently acquired S&W. I also got it in the original box, but right now, that box is put away. But here’s the goodness of early S&W 3rd Generation awesomeness.
Yup, a Model 3906!
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The 3906 is an all stainless steel DA/SA 9mm that is a single stack gun. This is one of the fewest produced S&W 3rd Gens that wasn't a special contract order or a Performance Center gun. The 3906 never received the mid production upgrade os a rounded trigger guard or NOVAK combat sights. Made from 1989 to 1991 and less than 6,000 were made.
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It will go nicely with my other S&W 2nd & 3rd Gen guns.
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Model 745, only 5,000 or so made.
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Model 5903SSV, only 1,500 made.
That's it for now.
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