Originally Posted by nyeti

As a modified old police gun, this is a good example. Shipped as a longer barreled blued gun, Registered magnum #40 was carried by an LAPD officer. When he went to a plainclothes assignment (likely in the 40's), the gun was taken to a local gunsmith to have a short factory 3.5" barrel (numbered to the gun) installed and round butted, and nickeled. That local Gunsmith was Frank Pachmayer. It was carried for a total of 35 years at LAPD.