Smith & Wesson has improved its American Guardians® program to more generously reward those who serve and protect. The program offers specially priced firearms for Law Enforcement, Military, and First Responders through a network of Authorized Dealers.
"Smith & Wesson values all of the first responders, law enforcement, military, and public safety personnel that serve our great nation and the freedom of its citizens. The American Guardians program is our way of saying “Thank You” to those heroes who serve the greater good of our country. The American Guardians initiative now features a broader product offering at very competitive prices. And now, with every purchase, Smith & Wesson is including a free pair of our iconic Model 100 nickel-plated handcuffs - the gold standard of the American law enforcement community," said Matt Fehmel, Senior Director, Global Professional and International Sales.
Dave
djhalfdead 18 Oct 2023
#2I have a set in my collection as well. Really great of S&W to offer this to our Guardians!
-Richard Knip-
Thanks for the photos and information.
Looking at those #100 handcuffs - with the big ugly rivets....is a far cry from their once perfect and streamlined classic Model 90 handcuffs.
Kinda sad, I think.....thanks to so-called "progress", and cost-cutting measures.
Joe, Even though Matt Fehmel referred to these as Model 100, they are the Model 100-1 series, when in 2011, S&W switched their manufacturing to the riveted method. I agree that these are much less attractive then their original brazing manufacturing method.
Dave
I don't like SW handcuffs. Easy to pick, easy to shim, and apparently easy to compromise via window exploit. And no modern features or improvements either. Same with Peerless but at least Peerless has no window exploit although they did succumb to the inertia method.
Also I'm not sure I would be calling professional law enforcement 'guardians'. It sounds cheap and pretentious almost. Just my opinion.
GUEST wrote:
↑Nov 03, 2023
Also I'm not sure I would be calling professional law enforcement 'guardians'. It sounds cheap and pretentious almost. Just my opinion.
Which
modern and mass-produced handcuffs do you think fully satisfy your criteria? I suspect there are none.
ASP is pretty modern.. I give CTS some credit for creating Trimax. You kow I think Peerless tried to defend against inertia by making improvements to their products. What has Smith and Wesson done to improve these handcuffs? All I read is apprecitation for past models and disappointment with new ones.
GUEST wrote:
↑Nov 04, 2023
ASP is pretty modern.. I give CTS some credit for creating Trimax. You kow I think Peerless tried to defend against inertia by making improvements to their products. What has Smith and Wesson done to improve these handcuffs? All I read is apprecitation for past models and disappointment with new ones.
Never heard about disappointment with new ones. They just work. Almost all handcuff brands have pros and cons and most can be picked or otherwise escaped from if someone is left along long enough and not properly searched. There are many improvements that
could be made to modern handcuffs but how necessary are they in the grand scheme of things? Also who would pay the higher costs? We have seen complaints of ASP cuffs regarding cost, which has taken years to lead to them coming out with a more cost effective Sentry series. Everything needs to be weighed out.
@rasberus
honestly they arent many. i have come to accept that all handcuff manufacturing is just outright bad. i mean it works but its just bad. thats why gotcha handcuffs had potential. they solved nearly all the problems almost all handcuffs share today. but of course a good product went extinct because of bad business relations. oh well. heres my advice to people looking to buy handcuffs for service use. just buy a model that looks the best. because theres really not much separating them apart by mechanical design. some have more exploits than others but what make 701C more secure and reliable than M100. or TRIMAX more secure than SENTRY. parker has destroyed them all. well almost all.
silentbd wrote:
↑Nov 04, 2023
GUEST wrote:
↑Nov 04, 2023
Never heard about disappointment with new ones. They just work. Almost all handcuff brands have pros and cons and most can be picked or otherwise escaped from if someone is left along long enough and not properly searched. There are many improvements that
could be made to modern handcuffs but how necessary are they in the grand scheme of things? Also who would pay the higher costs? We have seen complaints of ASP cuffs regarding cost, which has taken years to lead to them coming out with a more cost effective Sentry series. Everything needs to be weighed out.
I hear you but let's take one of the simplest most basic problems with handcuff design - inner perimeter. you probably know how many women, smaller men, and children can slip from cuffs. I think the smallest inner perimeter offered today is Hiatts thats 5.5"" or slightly less. why not resize the handcuff with a model made for small wrists and a model made for medium to larger wrists. having two frames sold with multiple case options that provide for storage of both the smaller and medium pairs made out of aluminum materials would offer police a guarantee a smaller subject wont slip the cuffs. and if they standardize this then it will become the norm. slipping of cuffs is a serious safety matter cops deal with constantly. and they deal with it because manufacturers refused to act. the sw universal cuffs are a failure by design. they accommodate slightly larger wrists than standard cuffs but at the cost of a much larger and more awkwardly shaped frame. then lets talk about the universal key. the design as i said in a previous post is pure shit. i understand the convenience and simplicity of a universal key but a lot of people have one in their possession. heres an idea. why not offer a new keying system that is sold to a single agency. so an entire police department or entire sheriffs department would have their own key distributed to all their sworn personnel. and if they are exchanging with another agency someone is going to be present to remove their cuffs before the exchange takes place. theres no reason an outside police department needs the same keying system as the sheriffs office. the inconvenience would not be the significant but at least with independent keying theres absolute and total control over the quantity of keys distributed. sure that means a lot of individual keying systems would have to be designed but not all agencies would opt in either. some might prefer universal keying just like some departments prefer digital communications with digital encryption and others dont. at every angle of handcuff design there is almost abandonment in this market to create a more modern, more reliable, safer, and better product. and its because the handcuff manufacturers can get away wth status quo. but that doesnt make it right and doesnt justify the negligence of these big names. and those are just two examples of a number of problems the standard handcuff design has.
