Steve

Roy Jinks thinks that the 32-longs made in the Model of 1896 are the
very very first K-32's ! When I wrote that story some months ago, about
the first K-32, Roy sent me a note and a picture of the 1896 K-32 in the
museum, noting that he felt that IT was the first K-32 .

The factory made target K-frames in 32-long much earlier than 1938.
Somewhere around that time was the first occurance of the gun in the
All Model Circular, but they were made much earlier. It's somewhat
surprising that, as late as 1938, they elected to put the item into the
Circular, given the earlier production of it.

657379 is a 6" blue 32-long target delivered to Longmeadow Police, MA
on June 23, 1936. At the time Roy wrote the letter for Dave Damkar,
he indicated that it was the first K-32 target. In retrospect, the much
earlier 1910 and 1916 guns had not yet surfaced, and this gun must have
been the first K-32 that Roy lettered.

A K-32 is K-frame revolver chambered in 32-long. Most of us think
it should be a target revolver - I'm not aware of any pre-WW2 K-32's
in M&P configuration, although there may be some in the known 1910
serial number series.

My comments were not in jest, as some might think. It was a serious
inquiry about a claim that roughly 90 K-32's were made pre-WW2. I believe
that claim to be incorrect, because of the earlier 1910 and 1916 guns,
and that is why I phrased the question the way that I did.

Regards, Mike Priwer