You aren't far off with this one. I worked in NYC back in the 1980's and your gun could have pachs. As soon as i got out of the PD academy i got rid of those wood grips. I hated them. I for one carried the S&W model 64, 4 inch revolver with black finger knotched rubber pachs. Worked great for me in a gun fight.

John







QUOTE=RM Vivas;135459849]You could have any grips you wanted and nickel up until 1964. A friendly fire incident took nickel and ivory/pearl/stag grips off the table for new hires. Everybody else was grandfathered until '67 when there was another friendly fire incident and nickel was banned all together and wood grips were it.

Pachs were authorized (I THINK< NEED TO CHECK NOTES) early/mid 1980's. There's an ex-LT here who could shed more light on that (wink, wink).

Allegedly the great delay in approving stainless was due to the 'shiny gun phobia'. Early stainless guns ere actually shipped witha frosted matte finish so they would not look like nickel.

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