OK, Digi, how about a NYPD M&P, with a Jay-Pee "Suicide" holster:



The revolver is a 1959 vintage .38 Special M&P, one of the bunch of revolvers R.M. Vivas was selling a year or so ago. He bought a whole box (100 or more?)of Colts and S&W M&P's from Yonkers Raceway when they were upgrading thier weapons. Apparently, Yonkers Raceway got them from NYPD, as R.M. Vivas supplied a copy of the NYPD property ledger with this revolver, showing it had been issued to Officer Alexander Sterling on February 25, 1959.

R.M. Vivas also threw in the Jay-Pee holster, once popular with the NYPD. Research shows this wasn't one of the best police holsters issued, the retention device makes it hard to draw the revolver, and the stitching may come apart if you are in a life and death struggle with someone who is determined to get your gun.

I love the history evident in the wear on this revolver, serving a NYPD Police Officer and a "Rough Around the Edges" horse track. It still shoots great....