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Old 06-17-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by sigp220.45 View Post
I went through new agent training in 1991...
Question for you.

What was the rationale given (if one ever was) for dis-allowing snubby .38 revolvers as back-ups?

I know of at least two incidents where an FBI agent suffered a malfunction of his semi-auto during a contact struggle with a bad guy; no fault of the agents, just an easily-induced problem with ANY semi-auto. The revolver does not have this problem, generally.

I was a panel member and presenter at the '93 Wound Ballistics Seminar at Quantico, so I know how anal the Bureau is about keeping records of such things. Those of us in the non-federal training community were flabbergasted when we heard of the edict... what in the world were they thinking?????

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