"Like the High Standard. We carried them upright in the front of the patrol car on right side of transmission hump in electric controlled locking rack that could released by a hidden button."

Years ago my BIL got me an Ithaca police gun that had been carried so. The barrel was FULL of cigarette butts, ashes, candy wrappers, etc. It someone had ever pulled the trigger, I am confident it would have blown up.