Prototype S&W mp-15

[Roger]

As stated the original M&P's were made by CMT and then assembled in house by S&W. I don't know that there is much to "prototype" with a standard AR15 lower, so I would be suspicious of such a claim.

On the other hand, it could be a blemished lower. They milled off the logo's and sold it to recoup some small amount of profit.

Are there any marks on it that say who made it? There should at least be a manufacturer name, location, and serial number.

[7idl]

it's a red x now

[Sixgun]

No other markings. It was made for S&W for their 1st mp-15's. Maybe a private CO. tring to get contract, and S&W let it slip out. I delete pic because I was getting weird feeling about it. Sorry, you guys saw it, I'll leave it at that. It is going to be neat O if we can figure out what LWS means, I'm sure it's someone intials.

[Gman]

It's not unusual for S&W to use serial numbers that begin with the initials of the project lead. They did this with their 1911s for example.

I tried to look at www.smith-wesson.com to see if any of their big-wigs had those initials, but their website is down. Not a good advertisement for IBM xServe and Apache on Windows, or the corporate admins.