here is a quick comparison, I live in Massachusetts and s&w does a lot, & I mean a lot for our freedoms and liberties here in this state. they do things that the rest of the country never even hears about. ask for glock and sig, well what's go back to just before World War 2 and talk about what happened the last time that we helped to promote arms production in Austria and Germany. and that in a nutshell is my comparison