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**Mike Irwin** · December 27, 2012, 11:20 AM

"This is rollmarked on a 2012 production S&W..."

Then it is .38 Special, not .38 S&W.

S&W hasn't chambered any guns for that cartridge in quite a few years.

December 27, 2012, 11:20 AM	#53
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