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Originally Posted by grcoffman104
I briefly carried a 4006 when I worked for a state agency in the 90's. Was told same as CHP. ( except they ordered them will a flush hammer. never could get answer why. ...
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If your question is why they went with a spurless hammer option, the info I heard over the the years (from S&W and CHP sources) is that the agency didn't want its officers to be tempted to try and cock their weapons into single action for the
initial shot.
Yes, subsequent shots were in the shorter & lighter SA mode, but it was the initial shot they wanted to be in the heavier DA mode.
There was probably some lingering effect of the days when service revolvers could be cocked into SA mode and have a much lighter trigger, and which might lend itself to a ND in the wrong circumstances. There were a few major agencies who had their service revolvers set up to be DAO back then.
I had a buddy who was a CHP traffic officer, and one day (in the early 80's) he told me about a situation where another CHP officer had a friend, from a local PD, ride along with him on a shift. The off-duty friend was carrying a revolver.
During the shift the CHP officer made a traffic stop, during which the ride-along off-duty officer drew his revolver to cover the CHP officer. At one point the off-duty ride-along apparently cocked his revolver into SA, and it discharged (via unintentional trigger press) killing the stopped motorist.
Why did my friend tell me about this? Because he invited me to be a ride-along with him one night, but told me that it was the policy of his field office that I couldn't carry an off-duty weapon, even as an off-duty cop, and that was the explanation offered (and it was his field office in which the unfortunate shooting had recently occurred).