Smith & Wesson NRA and NSSF over the issue of smart guns, thousands of retailers and tens of thousands of firearms consumers boycotted Smith & Wesson. CEO Ed Shultz, who negotiated the deal, was forced out in September of that year. By December 2000, the company's stock price was 19 cents per share. Smith & Wesson dropped its smart gun plans after nearly being driven out of business. On May 11, 2001, Saf-T-Hammer Corporation acquired Smith & Wesson Corp. from Tomkins plc for US$15 million, a fraction of the US$112 million originally paid by Tomkins. Saf-T-Hammer assumed US$30 million in debt, bringing the
Smith & Wesson Model 3 European reproduction Model 3 revolvers have changes made to their lockwork to meet import regulations. A Uberti produced reproduction was also marketed as the Beretta Laramie. Clint Eastwood's 1992 film "Unforgiven" features a character called the "Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett), named after the Model 3, his weapon of choice. In the 2007 film "", Charlie Prince (Ben Foster) carries two Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3 revolvers. Smith & Wesson Model 3 The Smith & Wesson Model 3 was a single-action, cartridge-firing, bottom-break revolver produced by Smith & Wesson from circa 1870 to 1915, and was recently again offered as