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Bryant Ridge's Analysis: The Smith & Wesson Model 59 is a double-action pistol produced from 1972 to 1981. It was developed by Smith & Wesson from the earlier Smith & Wesson Model39 by adapting a 14-round capacity stagger-stack magazine. The Model 59 was designed for the U.S. Navy as a large-capacity version of the S&W Model 39, the basis of their Mark 22 "Mark 22 Hush Puppy" suppressed pistol. In 1965, the U.S. Navy com …