Don't judge a book by the cover!
As long as the pistol is mechanically tight, and the bore bright, the pistol will shoot well. What I do with used guns is take a cleaning rod, bristle brush, and patches, and clean the tube out, and see if there if the barrel is bright, no rings, no shadows, no rust. Might take a small flashlight as there is never enough light at gunshows, or gun stores.
This had a lot of holster wear when I purchased it, and I added more. Probably shot tens of thousands of rounds, this is a wonderfully smooth and accurate 38 Special. Security Guard guns are shot very little. That used to be true with Police Department service revolvers. LEO's had to be forced to the range.
The local Gunstore sold these, and some of you might have seen it, or others exactly like it, in your last "Extended Stay" in Georgia:
It is a great pistol, hardly any use. It timed correctly, did not need a bore brush. And it was a deal.
The limitation with a fixed sight pistol is that you can't adjust the sights to your flinch. And on rare occasions, the front sight is not perpendicular to the bore. I am trying to get Rock Island to fix this 38 Special:
The pistol shoots about one foot left and high at 25 yards, and about 2 feet and high at 50 yards. It only takes about 0.078" of sight misalignment to be off a foot at 25 yards, with a pistol with a 15 cm sight radius. The front sight is canted and I want them to fix it. With an adjustable rear, I could have adjusted windage, but not necessarily elevation.