Good article on NYC police revolvers

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NY Mike15691 ,

You got it right and people who never lived there wouldn't understand. I'm a Bronx Native whose family is still scattered in the city. My Dad retired from the NYCPD and those years proved to him that gun control doesn't work. The bad guys always had the guns, (mostly stolen or drug guns), and the good guys were law abiding and sometimes dead because of it. My Dad carried a issued Colt Marshall .38 Special and a Cobra for off duty.

 

[Model520Fan]

You got it right and people who never lived there wouldn't understand.

You'd be surprised how well we understand. I have friends and relatives there, but I visit that cesspool as seldom as possible. There are some very nice sheeple who live in New York, but their attitudes and the attitudes of the adminstration and many of the police are what make NYC the place it is.

If you check out the origin of the Sullivan law, you will see the criminal origins of NYC gun control (as opposed to the racist origins of much gun control elsewhere).

I am told that in parts of the United States, police and deputy sheriffs are just regular citizens like you and me, except that they make misdemeanor arrests and enforce traffic laws. Plus they know what they're doing. But that's just hearsay. I haven't lived there since quite a few years now.

 

[Jack2427]

Same situation all over. After 40+ years I still carry a S&W M64 "pencil barrel" for service(the 40+ years kind of indicates how smart I really am). My BUG however is thoroughly modern, a S&W M40.

Got to confess though, I did several years of LE/security training in places like sandland and Bosnia, where I carried either a BHP or a 45 auto, primarily because of ammo availability. I did find 38 special quite available in many places though, but not in the useful loads available in the US. In addition I did make adjustment to the more military/combat type secnario in those places which might(and did) require a high volume rapid fire response from time to time. Of course we also carried long arms, the FAL, M16, and Uzi being the favorites, with a liberal sprinkling of shotguns among the US types.

But back home, still got the wheelgun, recently a girl cop (oops I mean woman-got to be PC) asked me if I had inhereited my M64 from my father or grandfather! I explained that they did not make them till the late 60s, and that my first service revolver was a blue steel Colt Python, I got a real blank look about the 60s. Had to do it, told her that when I was a kid there was no TV, she asked, "what did you do for computer screens?" Told her there were no computers, she asked, how did you run plates? Or check names? Or get on NCIC? I explained about the telegraph, and how we would ride our horses to the local telegraph station and send them in that way. Promised to show her a picture of my old horse and Winchester 30-30. Maybe this could lead somewhere? She said she would ask her teacher at the local community college, he was an old timer also (he is 35). I really am getting too old for this stuff.