She just loaded her magazine backwards so now all of the rounds in the magazine are all pointed forward!

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Several stories:
When I was a kid, the bank guard at the local bank carried a Baby Colt .25 Automatic in a leather holster.

I worked in a bank in Laredo TX back in the early 1990s. The bank guard there had a German P-38, carried in a military holster.

I worked at a chemical plant east of Cleveland back in the mid 1960s. The plant security guards there carried H&R .22 revolvers- don't remember the exact type. Feral cats were a problem there, so I imagine the .22 was practical for shooting them.

I worked in Colombia (South America) in the early 1970s. In Bogota, most of the better downtown stores had guards inside. As I remember, all of them had shotguns, usually pump guns of one type or another. Also, lots of heavily armed uniformed police on the streets, most carrying SMGs or shotguns. Lots of Banditos at large in Colombia at the time, but I never saw a shootout.

One more - Mid-1980s, the City Marshal in Muleshoe TX carried a Desert Eagle in .44 Mag. Also I know of one deputy Sheriff in Kinney County TX who carries a Desert Eagle.

I thought he had a Porsche???

I believe he drove a green '66 Mustang during the week.

I always loved the Model 92 ---with 45-70 shells on the belt. Sometimes---they were 30-06 shells on the belt. The magazine could fire 6 to 12 round too.

I sometimes find myself at my office at all hours of the night. The complex where my shop is located has a night security guy. He'll often stop by in the middle of the night when I'm there and bang on the door. I usually offer him a cup of coffee and we'll chat for a few minutes.

He doesn't "advertise it", but he carries an old, well worn, PD-issued 4" Model 10 from my home town. I told him I'd be interested in it if he ever want to part with it.

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I actually worked with a patrol cop in the late 80's who carried a privately owned Norinco SKS as a patrol rifle. He thought....... well, I don't know what he was thinking.

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When I was in highschool and on college breaks, I used to work for a photo developing company in downtown Chicago.

I used to walk past (the now defunct) Continental Bank frequently. They dressed their guards in fancy uniforms which looked like Germany NSDAP (Nazi Party) uniforms. One of the guards (a supervisor, I think) used to carry a 2" Smith 36 with adjustable sights in a leather duty holster.

Took my wife to the emergency room at University Hospital in Augusta last Friday nite.. Assisting patients loading and unloading were two University Hospital Guards.. They both were armed with Smith & Wesson stainless fixed site revolvers

Was stationed in Spain in the late 60's, Moron Air Base. As I recall a lot of the Spanish State Police seemed to prefer a Mauser 98 of some sort.

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Used to see quite a few RG and similar junk .38's on guards, probably because they were cheap and the guards didn't really care about guns. They were poorly paid, too.

The real lulu was a guy I worked with who wore a Ruger Old Army cap and ball .44. It was what he had. He had a dangerous post protecting a parking lot used by the phone company. Some of their female operators were also whores and their pimps were around. That sometimes led to violence, and there were holdups there.

I worked the inside desk, where all personnel entered and left the phone bldg. I wore a S&W M-64 .38 in a Safariland holster. One day, an FBI agent on his first assignment after graduating the new agent course at Quantico asked me to back him up as he tried to arrest a felon wanted for interstate flight and other crimes. One of the operators was his GF and she tipped him off by phone that we were waiting for him. He didn't show. Another woman later told me what'd happened. The agent wore an issued M-13 in an issue holster. I forget the brand but recall the appearance.

I soon got a .357 S&W M-66-3 and it became my primary duty weapon when I worked security jobs. I occasionally wore a Ruger GP-100 or a Ruger Security-Six, always in Bianchi or Safariland holsters like Bianchi's No. 5BHL or the Safariland M-29. Safariland doesn't make that now, but El Paso Saddlery does, as their Model 2. Basically the same design. I wore two speedloaders on my Bianchi River Belt, and my leather was basketweave stamped. I've never worn floral carved holsters. Not a cowboy, let alone a drugstore cowboy.

My guns had four-inch barrels, save for the SS , a six-incher.

Never wore an auto, because I'd have had to qualify separately with it and buy expensive duty leather.

Today, I'd make the effort to qualify with an auto and buy the leather. I'd wear my Beretta M-92FS and carry 124 grain JHP ammo like Speer's Gold Dot or the Federal HST.

Multiple felons are more common today, and there's the terrorist threat.

I was in Mexico and this 'guard' was carrying a High Standard, I wanted to buy it but couldn't figure how to get it back to Texas. Another time in Mexico a 'guard' was carrying a Colt Woodsman, I wanted that one too. I worked for Brink's in the very early 70s. We were issued S&W pre M10 Military Police .38 Spl. They were worn out junk. They issued us .38 'Police' ammo that they claimed had a steel perpetrator in it. I cut one up to check, nope. Some of the ammo was so old you could actually turn the bullet around in the case with your thumb and finger. I bought a M39 and carried that in my boot just in case. The truck I worked in had a shotgun, some off brand POC, the first time I held it the front bead fell off, LOL.

In the late 70's I was attending college in an Eastern NC town. To fight boredom, buddies and I would visit the one and only local indoor mall.
Shadowed a mall security guy on a stroll and got a really good look at his duty 'weapon', the first I'd seen there. All other guards were unarmed.

The 'weapon', in a black basketweave duty rig was a Colt Python replica gun. I could see the zinc mold seams on it and plastic wood lookalike grips.
I was amazed.

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In the early 70's I worked after school on the loading dock of one of the old White Front department stores. The security guard that sat there was armed with a 6" Llama revolver chambered in .22 Magnum. He said it was more effective than a .38 loaded with round nosed lead slugs which is what the other guards carried.

I flew to Europe a lot around the time of the 9/11 attacks. In one former Communist country I visited their equivalent of NASA. It was a "campus" with several buildings surrounded by a chain link fence, only one gate was open unless large equipment was being moved. That gate was guarded by really old dudes in really old uniforms without guns. After the attacks they donned old rusty Makarovs that looked like they had not been fired in years.

After the attacks Rome's airport had guards up on a balcony that surrounded the main ticketing area. They stood at "parade rest" wearing berets and some type of short-barreled guns across their chests. Right finger on the trigger.

What's wrong with using an SKS as a patrol rifle, so long as he can hit with it? The 7.62x39 is close to a .30-30 as far as power and lots of Western police officers have carried those in their patrol cars.

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Agreed, SKS' were a poor man's AR back when they cost $90

I once guarded a house in a very rich neighborhood where some heirs were squabbling over an inheritance. A judge declared this house off limits for them until the case was decided. The company furnished an old single-shot 20 ga. I looked at the several shells provided and all the primers were dented. Duds or reloads without new primers... I think the firing pin was also broken. Just a scarecrow of a gun.

I later protected a construction site where they'd had thefts on weekends and they brought out this same shotgun or one very like it. This was to augment my .38 M-10 S&W. The way they talked before I saw the shotgun, I was expecting a Remington or Ithaca pump in good shape. I was on my own, and it'd have been a comfort.

Most security companies are disgusting to work for. Some can't even get the payroll right. I always had to keep a record of hours worked unless I had a fixed post assignment with a set number of hours.