AJMBLAZER
Member
Picure doesn't show.
Detroit PD gun picture thread?!!!!
- Thread starter pred
- Start date
baxtersmith
Member
That's a great find, congratulations.
kframe357
US Veteran
kframe357
US Veteran
Aerojoe
Member
kframe357
US Veteran
Used Blue Magic last year. Looked good. But the haze came back a few months later. Not worried about it since I carry it. Might send it to S&W when my gun toting days are over.
one eye joe
US Veteran
I NEVER SAW MORE GORGEOUS GUNS ISSUED TO A POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE NICKEL SNUBBIES ARE FANTASTIC. I WOULD ASSUME THAT THE MOTIVE TO ORDER NICKEL WOULD BE THE EXPECTATION THAT IT WOULD BE MORE RESISTANT TO THE ELEMENTS AND TO HOLSTER WEAR. (HAVING NEVER OWNED A NICKEL GUN, I HAVE NO CLUE IF THIS IS TRUE) I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THEY WOULD PURCHASE THEM FOR MERELY COSMETIC PURPOSES. IN ANY EVENT, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE SNUBBY S&Ws………...
Last edited:
Aerojoe
Member
That was some of the reason for the nickel guns the other is Prestige at one time Detroit Police Department was one of the Premier Police Departments in America. They were the first with Harley Davidson motorcycles, first with in car radios there arme many other first's. They also made a lot of scientific first's. It was just a tradition they held on to for over 100years until the change to Glocks.
A friend (retired DPD officer) is in the process of starting the Detroit Police Historical Foundation. It has been slowed down because of the government sequestration but is back on track now and being helped by the new chief of police in Detroit. He hopes to have an announcement in a few months of a Detroit Police museum. I am hoping I can convince him we need a limited edition Detroit Police Historical foundation S&W M&P40 with a nickel plated slide. That and 2015 is 150th anniversary of the Detroit Police Department.
Last edited:
I went to high school in Roseville, MI and then college (for two years) in Detroit, finishing up at Oakland U. in Rochester. My first job after getting my degree was teaching 7th and 8th grade at a school on Oakman Blvd. just around the corner from 12th Street. It was 1968/69, after the riots when Martin Luther King was killed. I have the greatest of memories of my time in Detroit city and the metropolitan area. I first learned to shoot trap off Metropolitan Parkway in Macomb County and first hunted for rabbit and pheasant in southern Michigan southwest of Detroit. I feel very very badly about what has happened to Detroit. I hope it comes back big-time.
I, too, would like to pick up a D.P.D nickel piece, preferably a chief's special. You guys that have a Detroit gun: any tips on where to look for one? I live on the west coast and I'm thinking there might be some Michigan-based websites that are more likely to have a listing of one for sale. I have yet to see one listed for sale on this site.
I, too, would like to pick up a D.P.D nickel piece, preferably a chief's special. You guys that have a Detroit gun: any tips on where to look for one? I live on the west coast and I'm thinking there might be some Michigan-based websites that are more likely to have a listing of one for sale. I have yet to see one listed for sale on this site.
Aerojoe
Member
Aerojoe
Member
Couple more new additions
S&W 64-5 DPD 25989 these were never issued they were all sold nib when the changed to glocks.
S&W safety hammerless DPD 492
S&W 64-5 DPD 25989 these were never issued they were all sold nib when the changed to glocks.
S&W safety hammerless DPD 492
Last edited:
Aerojoe
Member
This is not my gun it is now part of the Detroit Police museum which will open May 12th 2015. The gun belonged to George Kimball the first Detroit police officer shot and killed in the line of duty in 1883.
Last edited:
jscott
Member
The first of many DPD officers to die in the line of duty, including several of my friends. Aerojoe, if you contributed that weapon to the new museum, thank you.
whitecoyote
Member
Very nice Joe.
Can you give us information on the Detroit Police Museum (location)?
Thanks.
Can you give us information on the Detroit Police Museum (location)?
Thanks.
Info on the new museum: Detroit Police Museum Detroit Public Safety Foundation
Aerojoe
Member
No I did not donate the firearm it has always been part of DPD since the officer died. I do have one of the largest collections of DPD firearms and my father is a 41 year and counting veteran of the DPD.
I am part of the Detroit Police Historical Society which is going through the process of becoming a non profit and run by Jeff Lemaux who is the "unofficial official" historian of the Department. He is also running the museum for the Detroit Public Safety Foundation. We have been cleaning up and sorting artifacts for the last few weeks.
There will be some cool artifacts coming in from different units. There are scooters from the scooter squad of the 1960's. We have a 1930's Harley Davidson on display. There are items from one of the first Women's Divisions within a police department. The bomb squad is bringing in some of the early bomb suits and robots any police depts used. We have a 1950's "Iron Mike" tactical body shields. There will be quarterly changes in theme of the displays.
Obviously one of the coolest areas to me is that the Detroit Police has extensive arsenal of rare weapons. The list includes Thompson machine guns and a range of Uzi sub machine guns in different sizes and calibers. H&K brief case MP5's.Mayor Coleman Young was a gun nut and I have herd a lot of cool stuff got bought for him to "play" with. He was also paranoid so his Executive Protection Detail EPU always had the best weapons. They even have two Cadillac limos fully armor plated he used when he was mayor. These items are still in inventory even the limo's.
The museum is starting out small hopefully it will grow quick but that will come with donations of money and as items taken by people for safe keeping are returned to the Historical Society.
Also so DPD gun collectors know keep your eyes open DPD will be flooding the market with around 2500+ M&P 40's and some compact 40's as Smith & Wesson is trading out the guns to new 2nd generation guns. This will be happening on officers next qualifications this summer. I am not sure what distributor is getting the old guns but rumor is the new guns are arriving now.
Last edited:
Aerojoe
Member
Also Forgot to mention this museum is in the New Detroit Public Safety headquarters it is a secure facility I am not sure if officers other than DPD personnel or LEO's on official business are allowed to bring firearm's into the building. There is security x-ray and metal detectors at the entrance. Just a warning for anybody local.
So I took this 64 out and burnt some powder. 15 Yards, 12 rounds, single action, point of aim was the 12 O'Clock, or top of the circle.
Chronographed 4 loads, current production WIN 130 Grain FMJ FP, 791 FPS; 1966 Olin Corp 130 grain FMJ Vietnam era round nose, 748 FPS; WIN 125 grain +P 975 FPS; and Priv-Partisan 158 LRN, 792 FPS.
I forgot what a joy shooting a .38 Special was.
Chronographed 4 loads, current production WIN 130 Grain FMJ FP, 791 FPS; 1966 Olin Corp 130 grain FMJ Vietnam era round nose, 748 FPS; WIN 125 grain +P 975 FPS; and Priv-Partisan 158 LRN, 792 FPS.
I forgot what a joy shooting a .38 Special was.
Last edited:
Similar threads
- Locked
