Smith & Wesson Objects to Brownells ‘Dream Gun’

By Dan Zimmerman

(This is a re-write of a post that appeared earlier today.)

That’s of Brownells’ series of ‘Dream Guns‘ highly customized, one-off project guns Brownells gins up as examples of what’s possible if you want to put some money and time into your stock pistol. They use these as come-ons for trade shows and such, as attractions to get passers by to stop and check out their wares. Their latest effort, a Smith & Wesson M&P, wasn’t well received by the venerable Springfield gun maker . . .

They had their IP attorneys send a love letter to Brownells and the other aftermarket companies who collaborated on the M&P Dream gun.

As you can see, SSVI, one of the recipients, wasn’t thrilled to hear that, as far as Smith is concerned, the project gun had violated Smith & Wesson’s intellectual property rights. As SSVI so eloquently put it, “@smithwessoncorp shall decide what you, the end user, can and can’t do with their products to make them more ergonomic, fix their …Read the Rest

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