Fact Sheet on Smith & Wesson

For Release: Friday, March 17, 2000

“The problem is not the guns….These people that they call children, in my mind, are little criminals and ought to be arrested.”

Smith & Wesson President and CEO Ed Shultz, “Smith & Wesson Survives New Age,” The Sunday Gazette Mail, May 28, 1995.

Smith & Wesson
2100 Roosevelt Avenue
P.O. Box 2208
Springfield, MA 01102
(413) 781-8300
According to 1998 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms production figures (the most recent available), Smith & Wesson is the second largest handgun manufacturer in America. In overall gun production, it falls behind such companies as Marlin, Mossberg, and Remington.

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Smith & Wesson Catalog, 1992

Smith & Wesson firearms were traced to crime scenes by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 17,947 times in 1997.

PISTOL PRODUCTION HISTORY 1985-PRESENT

Year	.22	.25	.32	.380	9mm	.45	Total
1985	7,530	0	0	368	36,790	0	44,688
1986	3,442	0	0	751	37,021	22,283	63,497
1987	29,384	0	0	821	74,837	33,792	138,834
1988	57,729	0	0	119	91,277	22,815	171,940
1989	56,017	0	0	1,150	190,753	35,349	283,269
1990	40,303	0	0	1,677	94,529	89,375	225,884
1991	41,410	0	0	700	92,141	34,836	169,087
1992	44,841	0	0	805	111,580	9,249	166,475
1993	44,013	0	0	0	106,405	37,575	187,993
1994	46,785	0	0	0	163,021	59,743	269,549
1995	22,136	0	0	29,604	134,393	55,773	241,906
1996	18,002	0	0	27,570	88,073	46,254	179,899
1997	77,412	0	0	9,178	50,050	84,140	220,780
1998	31,224	0	0	3,131	47,773	51,349	133,477

REVOLVER PRODUCTION HISTORY 1985-PRESENT

Year	.22	.32	.38	.357	.44	.45	Total
1985	14,094	2,405	146,346	185,183	93,146	8,509	449,683
1986	7,953	1,808	109,803	265,965	72,899	3,538	461,966
1987	11,133	467	150,555	188,925	50,512	1,348	402,940
1988	11,183	1,446	104,637	171,593	58,479	0	347,338
1989	19,575	3,662	101,490	93,239	39,926	17,999	275,891
1990	19,196	10,577	102,963	86,443	30,289	12,867	262,155
1991	14,894	2,039	103,055	93,598	37,310	5,181	256,077
1992	12,260	1,349	109,784	92,515	30,301	755	246,964
1993	13,637	99	121,952	86,842	20,594	2,944	246,068
1994	11,520	281	109,398	103,846	27,910	2,261	255,216
1995	10,106	0	80,178	136,247	29,534	2,158	258,223
1996	16,374	0	105,034	78,237	20,263	5,583	225,491
1997	27,295	0	78,339	32,765	20,222	812	159,433
1998	11,668	0	70,543	30,375	25,676	1,321	139,583

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