excellent story, those guns are really keepsakes for you.
i remember when i started in police work we had to buy our own gun, i bought a heavy barrel model 10 and a model 36 and i do not still have either, i wish i did. i also remeber we had volunteer police officers also who did not get paid. i worked the job 33 years and saw lots of changes, the first gunfight i was in i was carring a s&w model 28.