“New” from S&W: M&P 15-22 Black & Tan

1. It’s a great little rifle, wonderful training tool and fun at the range, but come on guys…

   This is akin to Ford announcing, “New for 2014: The Ford F-150 Now Comes with A Black/Tan Paint Job”

   • Haha, I saw the video and sent it to him as a joke. I didn’t expect him to make a post out of it.

     But I laughed when he did.

     • Great stuff. I almost feel sorry for “Jim” of S&W for having to keep a straight face while pronouncing this a “new” product for 2014.

     • I read it first in Nick’s normal voice. And then I read it in his ‘deep sigh/sad voice’

       I highly recommend the second.

2. Website says “Tan & Black” apparently they learned a lesson from Nike.

   • Nice save on their part. Calling it “Black and Tan” would be a great way to lose every sale to Irish folk in this country

     • I’ll give you one guess as to why I won’t be buying one.

   • Dont forget Ben & Jerry’s.

     • Or Yuengling.

3. On its website, S&W is calling it “Tan and Black,” rather than “Black and Tan.” Black and Tan has an unfortunate connection to British domination of Eire and would likely upset the Irish-American contingent.

   • This is actually legal in Britain being a rim fire and all, at least as far as I know, not sure about importing it.

   • In America, this is a Black & Tan. At least to the Scotch Irish in the mountains. Yeah, and it’s not Scot’s.

4. M&p-22 and m&p 15-22 are not the same thing. Otherwise. Cool I guess.

5. Does it come with 3XL elite mall operator clothing?
   Heyyooo!

   • Standard issue for Covert Underwater Ninja Team Specialists…

6. Boring….

7. You guys laugh, but in California manufacturers must certify every color of a handgun separately.

8. Black & tan, time to hit the bar.

   • I agree. As for the camo job, it’s pretty nice. I enjoy camo patterns and, NO, it’s NOT a tacticool thing. I’ve been fascinated by camo forever. I study it; it’s inherently interesting.

9. Pretty cool looking I suppose. My olive green one isnt going to cut it anymore, must upgrade.

   • Seems like a variant of the Vietnam Tiger Stripe pattern, which was, as I recall, an extreme optical elongation of the Woodland Pattern, barely in use here and there.

     Tiger Stripe seems to be making a comeback, here and there, in new variations. It was always better than Woodland. The Pentagon is SO prone to use the worst available pattern; I’m not going to go into why I think this is so.

10. Instead of “compliant” models, we should say “oppressive government restriction” model.

11. This is a Black & Tan:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tan

12. I’ve had one for about a year now, and really have fun shooting it. Great gun. I just can’t remember what color it is. Guess I’ll open the safe and look, or not. But the gun is great, whatever the color.

13. I was hoping for a black and yellow, black and yellow.

    • You know what it is…
      (Yes I thought the same thing too)

      I refer you to the dewalt ar-15

14. Ok, not a new rifle. Blatant attempt by S&W to pander to mall ninjas. I get all that.

    But here I am, a 57 year old OFWG that uses an M1 Carbine for home defense, and I’ve got to admit, that is a fine looking rifle. And I own absolutely nothing that is camouflaged. Rifle is shore purty, though.

15. This rifle is almost worth getting in pink

16. well, that’s a hell of a poor name for a rifle.

17. I have been contemplating which threaded .22 rifle for a suppressor host as my stamp should be coming any month now. Finally decided on the M&P 15-22. I went to every shop in town planning on just picking up a threaded black one . Then I saw this camo version and for $50 more, I thought it was pretty cool. And I am no mall ninja. What’s wrong with a little flavor to spruce things up a bit with the line-up? I’m an old guy, and I think it looks nice. Definitely a better camo paint job than I could do for 50 bucks.

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