S&W Factory Letter Arrived, Good News!

[Homerboy]

Go buy a lottery ticket. Your luck is pretty amazing.

Finding it was luck but I knew what I was looking for. I did a search in gunbroker for Ruger Service Six in .38 Special. I knew they would likely be a cop gun since most .38 versions were made for PD’s that required that caliber, and that the NYPD authorized them, first in blued with a hammer and then in stainless with a spurless hammer. When I saw it I was pretty sure it was NYPD issued. Seeing the seller pretty much confirmed it. He owns a gun shop on Long Island, NY, where lots of NYPD cops live. He even mentioned it was a retired cop’s gun but didn’t remember the agency. It was a very good bet it was a NYPD gun but I checked the serial number and saw early 1987. I knew the last class to get blued guns with hammers was in 1987 so I put in a bid. As a matter of fact, I bought a S&W 5946 from the same dealer, and it is stamped Garden City Police Department, which is a wealthy suburb on Long Island. I guess a lot of cops retire and unload their guns on this guy.

But I’m happy to have it. I like guns with history. I own plastic guns also but they don’t give me the same feeling.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Finding it was luck but I knew what I was looking for. I did a search in gunbroker for Ruger Service Six in .38 Special. I knew they would likely be a cop gun since most .38 versions were made for PD’s that required that caliber, and that the NYPD authorized them, first in blued with a hammer and then in stainless with a spurless hammer. When I saw it I was pretty sure it was NYPD issued. Seeing the seller pretty much confirmed it. He owns a gun shop on Long Island, NY, where lots of NYPD cops live. He even mentioned it was a retired cop’s gun but didn’t remember the agency. It was a very good bet it was a NYPD gun but I checked the serial number and saw early 1987. I knew the last class to get blued guns with hammers was in 1987 so I put in a bid. As a matter of fact, I bought a S&W 5946 from the same dealer, and it is stamped Garden City Police Department, which is a wealthy suburb on Long Island. I guess a lot of cops retire and unload their guns on this guy.

But I’m happy to have it. I like guns with history. I own plastic guns also but they don’t give me the same feeling.

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My closest neighbor retired from that area. He raises chickens and sells eggs to the local road stand grocer. Nice guy. Not a cop, a lawyer. I don’t know which side He doesn’t like to talk about life before he moved down here. Big city lawyer in his late fifties from a wealthy family moves to a no name berg in the swamps to become a chicken farmer - I prefer not to guess.