Smoke wrote:
Doesn't Fort Worth, TX PD still issue revolvers?
I knew for certain that most if not all were carrying auto pistols, but you got me to wondering. I phoned their firearms training division and learned they've been issuing Beretta .40s for the past nine or ten years. They began with the 96D, the DAO model but have gone over to the 96G, the decocker.
For many years, FWPD issued the S&W Combat Masterpiece .38 (Later known as the Model 15) with the option of using one's own .38 or .357 Colt or S&W, but ONLY to be carried with .38 Spl round nose lead ammo.
Later, they would approve certain automatics, if the officer underwent a three-day transition training. When Beretta became issue, there was a period when all new academy classes were required to carry the issue pistol, but the older heads could keep whatever they were carrying. Then, they began transitioning everyone, highest ID numbers first.
Now everyone in uniformed services carries the 96G. Plainclothes can carry other DA autos if their captain approves. Officers can carry personally owned (DA) backup handguns, even small revolvers.
There you are: Probably more than you cared to know . . . .
Johnny