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Old 12-03-2011, 09:00 AM
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Are any Police Departments still using revolvers? If so what department and make/model/caliber?
I think NYPD does. Are officers given a choice in any departments?
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I know individual officers that still carry revolvers (I stay qual'ed with one), though they're few and far between. Don't know any depts that still issue them, not American agencies, anyway.

As far as I know, NYPD is all Glocks these days, I've never heard of them allowing officers a choice.
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We are allowed to carry what we want as long as it is a reputable manufacturer and we qualify with it. I'm an investigator and am currently carrying a Mod. 19-6 if I'm not carrying a Glock.
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My agency's issued gun is the M&P .40 and for the detectives and brass desk jockies M&P .40 compact. They have no prohabition on revolvers as a BUG/OD/SD. We must qualify annually with any gun we carry and the dept supplies the ammo. This is my BUG.

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My department (7 officer department in Michigan) issues SW99. But, I was issued a model 38 Airweight as a back up / off duty gun.

Also, our part time reserves bring their own and can carry a revolver. These aren't issued though.
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NCIS allows their people to carry revolvers. They must be US made, .38/.357, and hold five shots or more. A good friend carries a 19-2.
They have to use the FBI load (158 grain +p LSWCHP)
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I know individual officers that still carry revolvers (I stay qual'ed with one), though they're few and far between. Don't know any depts that still issue them, not American agencies, anyway.

As far as I know, NYPD is all Glocks these days, I've never heard of them allowing officers a choice.
There are a few long serving NYPD officers still carrying revolvers. See this newspaper article: The New York Times > New York Region > In New York, Old-School Officers Swear By the Vanishing .38

The officers (or MOS) choose from a Glock 19 or DAO SIG or S&W. The vast majority choose a Glock.
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NCIS allows their people to carry revolvers. They must be US made, .38/.357, and hold five shots or more. A good friend carries a 19-2.
They have to use the FBI load (158 grain +p LSWCHP)
The Navy allows personally owned sidearms? No offense, but I'd have to see the policy to believe that one.
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I deal with 2-3 police departments each day. Some are large and most are small. I find the smaller departments are using revolvers (38/357) while the larger departments are using semi autos in either .40 or .45acp.

Thursday I dealt with a dept that had only one full time officer and two part time. They hand wrote their accident reports like a letter rather than using a state form. The Chief wore a 1911 but the one part time officer I met had a Glock.


Week before last, I was working a case in a town with 15 officers and they used revolvers.

It is rare these days but there are some out there still using the wheel guns. Sadly, those on the streets today did not have the pleasure of carrying a wheel gun or having to depend on accuracy rather than capacity.
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A lot of our guys carry snubbies as BUGs. One hospital PD in downtown carries revolvers.

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The Navy allows personally owned sidearms? No offense, but I'd have to see the policy to believe that one.
NCIS is Federal Law Enforcement. NOT service members of the US Navy. NCIS personnel all graduate from FLETC and are federal agents, not Naval service members.
Most of the agents I've trained with have the Sig bug really bad, and carry the 229DAK in .40 cal. A few had Sig 239s as backup, and the Kahr K-series is pretty popular also.
My friend is a little older than them, and was DC metro PD before he joined, and he does in fact carry a 19-2 (with round butt and 4" barrel, which I thought was pretty unique) as his duty piece.
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My small towns Chief of Police carries the same 4in nickeled Colt Python his parents gave him for his academy graduation.
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In my home town in NY, the two full-time guys carried revolvers (a Colt Trooper and a S&W model 19) till very recently. They have Glocks now, and I get sad whenever I see them.
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Old 12-05-2011, 01:45 PM
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I have seen a few officers in ft lauderdale, Metro dade now known as Miami dads and a few other officers in south Florida carry revolvers, either by choice or perhaps because they could not or did not qualify with a semi. I carried a revolver, because by the time I returned to the streets from support functions, I had a year to go for retirement and did not want to go qualify with a semi
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Plainclothes assignment permits me to carry my own Ks and Js, 2 or 4 inch model 10s and 438 or 442.
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My County Sheriff's Office (a couple hundred sworn deputies) does not issue a side arm. Each deputy purchases their own, and revolvers are allowed. The SO does have long guns for issue, but again each deputy is able to purchase/carry their own. Each must qualify with whatever they carry.

Revolvers are not common as a primary side arm in this SO, but I do see them carried from time to time. I'm not with the SO (darn it ).

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Old-School Officers Swear By the Vanishing .38

By MICHAEL WILSON

December 16, 2004

Roughly 19 out of 20 officers in the New York City Police Department carry the semiautomatic pistols that have been standard issue for 11 years, a boxy handful of steel and polymer as clean and smooth as many of their young faces.

This story is not about them. It's about the 1 in 20, and the old, heavy piece parked on that officer's hip like a jalopy at the top of the driveway. Wow, people say -- look at that thing. Does it work?

An older model of sidearm was grandfathered in with officers who are, in some cases, grandfathers. It is thick, but elegant in its way, its grip curling lazily out of the holster, the grooves in the hammer like those around aging eyes.

It goes by many names -- thirty-eight, six-shooter, pea-shooter, wheel gun -- but the .38-caliber revolver is a dying breed on the belts of New York, soon to go the way of the rosewood nightstick.

Today, a few more than 2,000 service weapons are revolvers, down from more than 30,000 in 1993. Never again, the police said, will new revolvers be issued, and so the number shrinks with every retirement. Many officers own two guns, and some officers continue to carry revolvers off-duty, but again, that choice is no longer available to new recruits.

More than anything else, it is carrying a gun -- the daily familiarity of it, the expectation that it must be used on a second's notice -- that most sets apart the police from the policed.

And yet, choosing the gun was unceremonial, rushed and uninformed: pick up a revolver off a table, see how it feels, try the next one, then a third, then pick your favorite. Then, during training, the recruits learned to respect this piece of equipment that can take a human life. Now it feels strange to leave the house without it. They have come a long way together, these 2,000 officers and their revolvers. Uniforms have come and gone, and the belly under the belt has grown, but the gun hanging there is not to be messed with.

''Eventually, they'll all be gone,'' said Inspector Steven J. Silks, commanding officer of the firearms and tactics section of the Police Academy. ''It's like people who like to have a stick shift. You take it away from them, they feel like they can never drive in the snow again.''

In the early years of the Police Department, officers carried any weapon they chose, until Theodore Roosevelt, as president of the Board of Police Commissioners, ordered the 4-inch, .32-caliber Colt revolver to be the standard sidearm. Training with the guns began on Dec. 30, 1895.

Ninety-eight years later, in 1993, after much debate among the department and the unions and legislators in Albany, the department switched from revolvers to semiautomatics, primarily to meet the advanced weaponry carried by criminals and dispel the perception that the officers were outgunned.

The newer guns were easier to reload and held 15 rounds in the magazine and one on the chamber, almost three times as many as the revolver. Officers with revolvers were allowed to keep them if they chose, while rookies received the new guns.

So, the model of an officer's gun dates him or her like rings on a tree. The outer bands are the semiautomatic, 9-millimeter pistols. The next ring is much thinner, the brief period of the so-called spurless revolver, a gun with an internal hammer that for safety cannot be cocked. Finally, in the center, there is the classic revolver, such as the Smith & Wesson Model 10 or the Ruger Police Service Six, more commonly seen on ''T.J. *%!$#%'' reruns or film noir than on the streets of New York.

The grips still echo the earliest revolvers, designed in the 19th century to feel like the handle of a plow in a man's hand. Lt. Eugene Whyte, 45, with 22 years on the job, remembers arriving at a meeting for the Republican National Convention this summer, and men in suits quickly calling him aside, agog at his snub-nosed sidearm. ''I had Secret Service guys asking me if they could see it,'' he said. ''It was as if I was carrying a flintlock pistol.''

It is not only fellow law officers who notice. Officer Andrew Cruz, 41, was posted in Times Square recently when a tourist did a double take at his revolver. ''He said, 'Old school,''' the officer recalled. They get that a lot: ''You're a real cop,'' or, ''You must have seen a lot,'' or, ''You must be getting ready to retire.''

''They say, 'What are you, an old-timer?''' said Officer Mark Steinhauer, 41, who joined the department in 1991. ''My answer to them is, 'It worked for John Wayne.'''

The guys with revolvers, they say, are the same guys who married their high school girlfriends. Dependable. No surprises.

''It's put me through 20 years, and I'm still alive,'' said Officer Gregg Melita, 41, who not only carries a Ruger Police Service revolver, but the old ''dump pouches,'' two leather carriers that hold loose cartridges. ''This is when guns were guns, and cops were cops,'' he said. ''The new guys don't even know what dump pouches are. They go, 'Hey, what's that hold?''' He chuckled. '''Bullets, kid.'''

The design of a 9-millimeter magazine, with a spring pushing cartridges in single file into the chamber, makes it susceptible to malfunction, to jamming. With a revolver, there is always another round ready to fire, no matter whether the one before it did.

''These aren't Ferraris,'' Inspector Silks said. ''These are Chevrolets.''

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly ordered the switch to 9-millimeter pistols 11 years ago, and learned to shoot one himself. But it is his revolver, a Colt Detective Special, that he carries today, under the slight break in his trouser leg at the left ankle.

''It's easier to carry, for me, anyway, the revolver. I've carried it for a long time,'' he said. ''I actually won it in the Police Academy, many years ago,'' graduating first in his class. It is inscribed: ''Bloomingdale Trophy won by Probationary Patrolman Raymond W. Kelly. May 15, 1967.''

As for the decline of the revolver, he said, ''I don't think it means very much, tactically. I don't see that much difference in shooting a semiautomatic handgun or a revolver. The difference, people will tell you, is dependability. You take a revolver that's been in a drawer for 100 years, take it out, pull the trigger, and it's going to go off. Automatics have the potential, probably more so than revolvers, for jamming. At least, that's what people think.''

Officers with revolvers say that yes, they feel more comfortable with a gun that is virtually malfunction-proof, and that six shots at a time, along with their extra six-shot speed-loaders, ought to be enough. ''After 18 rounds, if I can't hit him, I'm in big trouble,'' said Officer Sean Murtha, 40, who carries two speed-loaders. (And he would be a statistical aberration. To date in 2004, the average number of rounds fired by a single officer in a police shooting is 2.8, down from 4.6 in 2000 and 5.0 in 1995.)

But there is something else about the gun. It makes a statement.

''It has to do with identity,'' said Officer Cruz, from the 88th Precinct in Fort Greene in Brooklyn. ''You see someone with a .38, you know they've got some time on them.''

Officer Melita, with his dump pouch, joined in 1986 and patrolled in Harlem for 18 years. He believes his gun shows younger officers that he was at work when times were different in New York. ''That's how you can tell who's been on the job awhile,'' he said. ''Back when it was, you know, wild.''

Officers must appear twice a year at the firing range in Rodman's Neck in the Bronx. Detective Tomasa Rodriguez, with the Midtown South precinct, remembered the announcement for everyone with revolvers to step aside to a separate range. ''It was embarrassing. All the young kids were looking at us like, 'Oh my God, these people, they're emotionally disturbed, they still have a .38,''' she said. ''Before you know it, you're out of there. There's, like, two or three people. I told my partner, 'I was embarrassed at the range.' But I don't care. I like my weapon, I know how to use it.''

The department had 2,367 revolvers in service in 2003. At last count this fall, that number had dropped to 2,019. Wait, make that 2,018 -- Marty Paolino, 42, retired from the 88th Precinct a few weeks ago. (''I never wanted to go for the special training,'' he said on his last day of work. ''They don't pay you enough.'') Next year, with the expected retirements of officers who joined in 1985, a relatively large class of recruits, hundreds of revolvers will disappear from service.

It is too soon for eulogies, but not much. For an epitaph on the revolver's tombstone, consider two statements from two officers, six little words for why they kept their six-shooters.

''I hate change.''

''It looks cool.''

Photos: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly carries a revolver under his trouser leg at the left ankle. ''I've carried it for a long time,'' he said. (Photo by Nancy Siesel/The New York Times)(pg. B12); Officers with their revolvers. ''Someone with a .38, you know they've got some time on them,'' says one. (Photographs by Nancy Siesel/The New York Times)(pg. A1)

Chart/Diagram: ''A Dying Breed''
The .38-caliber revolver is carried by only a relative handful of veteran New York City police officers, and as they retire, so will their revolvers. Here is a look at a six-shooter and the 9-millimeter semiautomatic that is now the standard issue.

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Model 10 .38-caliber revolver
CALIBER -- .38
CAPACITY -- 6
LENGTH -- 8.9'
BARREL LENGTH -- 4'
WEIGHT -- 36 oz.

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Glock 19
9-millimeter semiautomatic
CALIBER -- 9 mm
CAPACITY -- 16*
LENGTH -- 6.9'
BARREL LENGTH -- 4'
WEIGHT -- 21 oz.

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*Includes 15 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber.
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Regarding Wilson's article about the NYPD, it states (paragraph 5) that new recruits are no longer permitted to ...carry off duty...or, carry revolvers off duty. The statement can be read either way. does anyone know?
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Detroit Police still allow those that didn't change over to the autos to keep their model 10s for duty guns.
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In my neck of the woods there are currently no L/E Agency's that issue or authorize revolvers for duty use. The ONLY caveat is if you are close to retirement and have CONTINUALLY carried a revolver, they will not force you to convert to an auto loader. If you do switch to an Auto, you can not switch back to the revolver again! You must however qualify to the same standards as the A/L shooters do.

I actually went to Yankee Stadium last year and saw an "old timer" wearing his M 10 Revolver in the old style NYPD holster. I went up to him and we had a nice "gun-chat" between batters. He told me they (younger Cops) all make fun of him, but that he was pulling the plug soon, so he had no intentions of switching. Jokingly, I said to him, "for a real throw-back look", put a few rubber bands around the grips He laughed!

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My agency (OKC) still issues revolver for our Honor Guard memebers. We are issued 4 inch S&W Model 65's. We carry 12 round loop loaders and bucket holsters with a strap. We have to qualify annually on our states CLEET course of fire. I've fallen in love with revolvers and now carry one on duty. I do get stopped quite a bit and asked what I'm carrying (S&W Model 627) and why I carry it.
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My agency (OKC) still issues revolver for our Honor Guard memebers. We are issued 4 inch S&W Model 65's. We carry 12 round loop loaders and bucket holsters with a strap. We have to qualify annually on our states CLEET course of fire. I've fallen in love with revolvers and now carry one on duty. I do get stopped quite a bit and asked what I'm carrying (S&W Model 627) and why I carry it.
That's awesome. We can't carry anything but a Glock, and after an accidental fatality, everyone's Model 22 trigger was set to 15 Lbs. for a while, but now they're back to factory.

At any rate, what do you use for your 627's duty holster, and how do you carry full moon clips if you use them. (E.g. in 5.11 Tac Pro Lite's you can use the magazine pocket to stack two or three 8 shot moon clips with .357).
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There is a local holster maker (looper leather) that made me a holster. On their web sight it's the EVO holster. The hood attachment is something blade tech makes. I carry a 12 round loop loader and an n frame speed loader holder. I put one moon clip upside down and one right side up in them.
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Before the federal agency for whom I toil was euthanized and resurrected as one of the post 9-11 knee jerk decisions, we were allowed to carry personally owned sidearms. They had to meet ammunition specs and we were required to maintain strict qualification standards. At one time the majority of personal weapons used were .45 ACP SA semi-autos. When the double action requirement was instituted Beretta .40 SW and S&W .357 revolvers were the choices. Then "progress" overcame reason and the issue weapon was transformed into semi-auto double action only (spray and pray) along with an "attainable by all" qualification course.
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I've been a cop since 2006 and I've only carried one variation of a GLOCK to another. But I'm a 2nd Gen Cop and a Holster Sniffer; so is my old man.

The Miami Dade Police Department (3,000+ Agency) just finished issuing S&W Model 64s. They had a quirky department approval list. Used to be that you could qualify with any double action S&W or Colt Revolver that was in .38 Special or .357 Magnum (could only use department issue .38 Special Ammo). They then went to S&W only and then it was only a department issue S&W Model 64.

When that happened they came out with an approval list of traditional double action pistol that was made by the following. S&W, Ruger, Beretta, H&K, and Sig Sauer. They then stated that only 9mm was allowed and if you had a .45 ACP or a .40 S&W you were grandfathered in but could not get another one in that caliber if your gun broke. The deal was with all of these lists you had to provide your own gun. If not you got issued the S&W Model 64.

They then stated that a DAO 9mm was allowed from S&W, Beretta, Ruger, or Sig Sauer. Later it went to either a MDPD Issued S&W 64 or a Sig Sauer P226R DAO in 9mm.

That all came to an end when the new director stepped in. The Revolvers were sacked and the new department issue gun would be a GLOCK 17 with a "Miami" Barrel. Reason was that the SRT Team was playing with GLOCKs are the road guys were pissed. Every other agency in South Florida carried GLOCK, why not the MDPD? So it was allowed... then the list was expanded to allow GLOCKs in .45 ACP if they were private purchase.

The S&W 64 still floats around in a holster or two but that is mostly the older folks working the Court System. Everyone that I've seen is either an old timer with a Beretta 92FS or a S&W 59xx series gun. The revolvers have been put out to pasture.

I carry a S&W 642 as a bug and I'm the only one out of an agency of 127 cops. Everyone else carries a subcompact GLOCK or a Kel-Tec P3AT, Walther PPS, Ruger LCP, or S&W Bodyguard .380. The range master hates me because he has to order .38 Special ammo for me every time I qualify. Also the SOPs have been changed but I was grandfathered in.... strangely one of the young bloods is the only revolver shooter out of an agency of GLOCK fans. I'm a GLOCK fanatic but I do think that a Revolver is a fine piece of steel and that the officer should be given the choice in what they wish to carry as long as it's in operational condition and the officer can show safe handling and accuracy with it.
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But I'm a 2nd Gen Cop and a Holster Sniffer.
Don't know that I would've admitted to that on a public forum...
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I know here in NY the Court Officers (the actual state workers not the little local baliffs) can carry revolvers if they choose to and I know of one guy carrying a Smith 15 and another a 586. I believe the majority of the NYS Department of Corrections still carries Model 10 revolvers that were old NYPD holdovers. I know of one guy who is an investigator with the DOC who carries a Model 37 Smith. Other than that I think most of the old revolvers have pretty much been retired which is a darn shame considering some of their replacements. I know if I were given the choice I would much rather carry a Model 28 than a Glock any day of the week, I really don't care about the difference in mag vs six rounds.
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Greetings from NH. I haven't seen a revolver in an LEO holster for quite some time.
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AFAIK the Mayberry Sheriff's Dep't are still carrying revolvers.
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Our department issues semi autos for duty but we have the option to carry personal owned firearms for BUGs, off duty, and on duty carry when in plain clothes.

For on duty non uniform carry I often carry a S&W 65 with 3 inch heavy barrel.

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Our department issues semi autos for duty but we have the option to carry personal owned firearms for BUGs, off duty, and on duty carry when in plain clothes.

For on duty non uniform carry I often carry a S&W 65 with 3 inch heavy barrel.

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Our department issues semi autos for duty but we have the option to carry personal owned firearms for BUGs, off duty, and on duty carry when in plain clothes.

For on duty non uniform carry I often carry a S&W 65 with 3 inch heavy barrel.

Excellent choice, I have always wanted a model 13/65.
Change it back - I hope we can.
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Beware of the cop still carrying a revolver. He hits what he aims at!
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Very nice model 65. I am looking for one myself.
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My agency (OKC) still issues revolver for our Honor Guard memebers. We are issued 4 inch S&W Model 65's. We carry 12 round loop loaders and bucket holsters with a strap. We have to qualify annually on our states CLEET course of fire. I've fallen in love with revolvers and now carry one on duty. I do get stopped quite a bit and asked what I'm carrying (S&W Model 627) and why I carry it.
I know the above post is 7 months old, but it is cool as all get out.

I think I need to switch departments.
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Over the past several years I have delivered holster orders to all 50 US states and 28 foreign countries, and many of my customers are law enforcement officers. A few months ago we tallied up all of the orders for 2011 and found the following:

53% of all holsters ordered were for revolvers.

31% of all holsters ordered were for J-frame S&W's (by far the most popular, considering that I offer holsters for 137 different handguns).

8% were for N-frame S&W's.

6% were for K-frame S&W's.

5% were for L-frame S&W's.

2% were for Ruger revolvers.

1% were for Colt revolvers.

My experience may not be the same as other holster makers. I expect it depends a lot on the types and styles of holsters offered.

I don't expect revolvers to disappear for a long time!
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The Peace officers in Tombstone, AZ carry the traditional Single Action Colt 45. Only reason being it's a "Cowboy Town". Cowboys don't use Glocks.


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My agency (I've been retired 15 yrs.) switched to Glocks well over 20 years ago, first 9mm then 40's. Everyone had to switch, no exceptions. Today I was visiting w/one of the big bosses and showed him a Colt 2" that was similar to my duty weapon used in a gunbattle w/badguys that held up a liquor store in the early '70's. He could not wrap his mind around anyone using these old guns, let alone putting a bad guy down permanently.

No way I could go back to law enforcement today given my age and physical limitations, but if I did I'd have no problem carrying a wheel gun.
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Surprising any agency even allows revolvers with this "every PD/SO has to have a SWAT team" mentality in LE.
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"The revolver is not as clumsy or random as the semi-automatic, but an elegant weapon from a more civilized age."

I am currently working plain clothes and carrying a 627 PC 2.5". When I want to carry something a little lighter, I carry a 60-10 3". As much as I like the 357s, I am thinking about going back to my 325 Night Guard for plain clothes and my 325 Thunder Ranch for when I do wear a uniform. They are a lot lighter. As much as I have practiced, I still cannot reload the 357 as fast as the 45. The 357 has the advantage of 8 rounds compared to 6, but getting all those little bullets lined up with the 8 holes is a little tedious with either speed loaders or moon clips. Maybe Hornady Critical Defense ammunition would be faster with the pointy bullets.
We buy our own sidearms. Approved uniform duty is basically 9MM to 45 with the exceptions that 38 Special is excluded and FN 5.7 is included. The plain clothes approved list does include 38 Special. I am in a 10 man agency and I'm the only one still carrying a revolver. Two guys carry Glock 357s, Two carry Glock 45s. Two carry FN 5.7s. Two carry 1911 45s. One guy has a S&W M&P 40. If I did switch to an automatic, it would probably be a 1911 45. I have several.

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I'm sure NYPD has a few hundred officers still using revolvers, but getting less by the day.
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They must be US made, .38/.357, and hold five shots or more. )
Is there a revolver made that carries 4 or less?
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I'm sure NYPD has a few hundred officers still using revolvers, but getting less by the day.
Yes, the NT Times article was written in 8 years ago. So, its been 19 years since the switch to 9mm. The numbers are probably approaching zero at a rapid pace!

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It probably doesn't matter if you are only allowed to carry one cartridge!

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Neat older thread here, glad it was resurrected!

I used to see a fair number of City of Birmingham officers with revolvers; it was big news locally many moons ago when they started allowing the option of a Beretta 92 to its officers. I'm not sure if or how their policy might have changed since.

In the outlying municipalities, it's been a while since I last saw a revolver in service, except with the County SO where I still notice a handful from time to time.
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I dont see revolvers used on duty.
But OFF DUTY a lot of us pack wheelguns.

K/L frames and J frames.
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Chicago PD has some older officers grandfathered and carrying revolvers; met one at O'Hare a while back when I was forced to fly somewhere.
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I have 31 years on (NY) still carry and qualify with my model 10 and model 36. As a detective I'm no longer in uniform, I also have the G-19, but rarely carry it.
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