S&W is not putting any internal trigger locks into any of their revolvers at the moment. What might happen in the future is anyone's guess. They do package an EXTERNAL trigger lock with their new guns, but most of the industry is doing that now.
Re the political thing, Smith caught a lot of crap from the shooting world in general, when they signed an agreement w/ the Clintonistas some years back. THEY NEVER INSTITUTED ANY OF THAT AGREEMENT. Understand, they were facing lawsuits, the costs of which would have put them out of business, even if they had won every single suit. That's why the bastards who filed the suits did so in the first place. They didn't expect to win. They wanted to force S&W to close up. Given that; it really hurts to see the people that Smith wanted to stay in business to serve (us shooters), try to do what the antigunners wanted in the first place, by boycotting Smith.
Well, S&W has new owners now, and more importantly, new on site management. They make good guns. The guns they make feed the families of the AMERICANS who make them, not some Turkish cluck being underpaid in a Kraut factory, or a Brazilian who'll never have enough bucks to get out of the slums because he's got 8 kids and the wife's pregnant again.
Hey, buy what you think is a good piece at a price you want to pay, where ever it's made; but for pity's sake don't make it a political issue. Yeah, it was during the Clinton/Gore years. THAT'S WHY WE VOTED FOR BUSH.