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Originally Posted by BUFF
One of my neighbors was a patrolman with SLCPD in those days and I used to ride along occasionally with him on graveyard shifts while a college student. He wasn't a 'gun' person and always disliked the M-39. He had several 'unintended discharges' and stoppages during qualifications, including at least once when he was holstering it, claiming he had his finger nowhere near the trigger! The department would issue him a new one each time he had a problem; I think he went through 3 or 4 at least during the time. He had just been issued a brand new 39-2 when they decided to replace them with the revolvers. He was happy to see it go.
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The solution here, with all due respect to your neighbor, was not to give him a new Model 39 every time he demonstrated that he was apparently brain dead or lacking sufficient intelligence to manage a life-saving piece of his official equipment. Instead, the solution was to give his job to someone with more aptitude for the job.