The Untold Story of the Smith & Wesson Performance Center | Paul Liebenberg Part 3

The Smith & Wesson Performance Center changed the firearms industry—but few people know how it really began. In Part 3 of this exclusive series, legendary gunsmith Paul Liebenberg joins Guns & Ammo's Keith Wood to tell the inside story of building the original Performance Center from an empty hangar into one of the most influential custom firearm shops in America. Paul explains the politics inside Smith & Wesson, the development of the .40 S&W platform, the creation of the Performance Center's legendary PPC pistols, the innovative .356 TSW competition cartridge, the company's early 1911 projects, and the handcrafted FBI 1076 pistols that became legendary for their reliability. In this episode: How the Smith & Wesson Performance Center was created Developing the .40 S&W platform Building championship-winning PPC pistols The story behind the .356 TSW cartridge Early Smith & Wesson 1911 development The handcrafted FBI 1076 project Internal politics and innovation at Smith & Wesson Rare behind-the-scenes stories from one of the industry's greatest pistolsmiths If you're a fan of custom firearms, competitive shooting, or Smith & Wesson history, this is an episode you won't want to miss.