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Old 04-01-2011, 02:33 PM
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When I joined the Sheriff's Department in 1993, we had to provide our own guns. I chose the 4566 as it was already approved for carry. I stayed with that gun until "forced" to go to the Glock 21 in 2000 (as a command officer, I could have continued to carry the 4566, but the Sheriff, who was really a nice guy as well as a professional law enforcement officer, thought that the command officers should lead by example). Most of the other deputies that carried a .45 carried either a 4506 or Ruger P90 (I was the only deputy that carried a 4566). Since the first autoloader I carried as a LEO was a S&W M39, I always carried with the safety ON. I felt comfortable, and not the least bit encumbered, with the "proprietary" safety.
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