It could have been a Border Patrol gun as mentioned in my previous post above. INS was in DOJ, and the BP was a branch of INS.
I have a copy of a Service-wide firearms inventory from about 1974, though, and while it mentions numerous K frames (and a LOT of other things) to include Model 15s and 6" K-38s, there is no mention of any 4" K-38s. But inventories were riddled with errors then and now; plus it wouldn't take much for these guns to be lumped in with Model 15s for inventory purposes.
Anyway, that was the only one I ever saw.
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