Why I Still Love the Smith and Wesson 2214
I remember the first time I handled a smith & wesson 2214; it felt like one of those weirdly perfect designs that somehow got lost in the shuffle of the mid-90s. It's a compact, almost blocky little thing that looks like it belongs in a retro sci-fi flick rather than a holster. But once you spend some time with it at the range, you start to realize that Smith & Wesson was really onto something back then. It's part of the "Sportsman" series, a family of rimfires that included the 422, 622, and the stainless 2206, but the 2214 was the "baby" of the bunch. ...