It's off topic, but since we're here anyway...
I heard a story saying S&W originally also had a clockwise rotating wheel, just like Colt. In 18xx (forgot the exact year), a government procurement personnel advised them "if you change the rotation direction, you will win the contract". So S&W did that. Finally, they did not win that contract, but that rotation pattern was kept and they did not change it back. So, in this story, the change was not tech driven, it's more customer driven. S&W just followed an advice with intention to gain some business. Probably that's also the reason they did not bother to change it back: either way works, cost too much to change back and forth.
But this is just one version of stories on this. There are other stories.
Customer driven theory might be applied to some other unexplainable changes on other type of guns,,,, I guess.
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