Where to begin...my father was a Special Agent in the FBI for almost 27 years before his premature passing at the age of 52. This Saturday would have been his 66th birthday so in his honor I share this with you.
He joined the Bureau while Hoover still ran the show and was as old school as they came. He was officially part of the KMA Club at the time of his passing. He worked in South FL in the 70's and the early half of the 80's. He fought the drug trade before a contract forced our family's move to Memphis. In the FBI, he was a Firearm's Instructor, Defensive Tactics and Street Survival Instructor as well as a Pilot in Command. He was sent to Mexico and Russia to teach there as well. I even got to play with simunition from time to time with my friends. He also served a short stint in the SOG after a long undercover operation based in Memphis.
This was my father's last service pistol with the Bureau. He loved this gun and the firepower it gave him even if he did carry it sometimes in a terrible, touristy, blue fanny pack. My father was friends with Ben Grogan, one of the agents who was shot in the infamous shootout in Miami in 1986. I have the bookmark in my father's Bible from Grogan's funeral, one that most associate with the Bureau's search for the right round with which to arm their agents. That round was the 10mm and that gun was the S&W Model 1076
Here are the pictures of the gun, the S&W Performance Center case, specific documentation related to the FBI issuing of the gun as well as the documentation of the FBI's testing of the different caliber rounds that led them to choose the 10mm. I hope you enjoy...
The gun itself
The FBI Weapon Record Book - A record of every round my dad or I ever fired through it
FBI Issuing Information - Guidelines/Instructions Upon Issue
The Performance Center logo on the PC Case
My father's Firearms Instructor Manual - Firearm Training Unit - Quantico, VA
1990 FBI Ammunition Tests
1992 FBI Ammunition Tests
FBI Testing of Hydrashok Ammunition
Original FBI Issue Rounds
***DISCLAIMER - My apologies for the duplication as this is my first thread I have started!***