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Originally Posted by GB
Plastic, great marketing and politics killed the revolver as the American LE standard. The high cost of producing revolvers didn't help. If you recall, the makers of the new fangled "wonder nines" all but gave away their new guns to get a foot hold in the market (even our beloved S&W) giving high trade-in prices and new guns at or near cost (but made a grundle of money selling extra mags ) in order to convince the politicians that they were getting something for nothing. (Remember, Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs and Directors of public safety are really only politicians)
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Much more complicated than that. Miami in the late 70s early 80s had a lot to do with it. When drug cartels started having machine gun shootouts in the streets many officers went and bought high capacity semi autos. These gangs spread to other cities. In the late 80s my city was already all semi auto and it's not a small department. Something like 6000 officers.
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