What unusual or unlikely guns have you seen used buy LEOs?

[Firespec35]

There was a reserve at Highland Park MI PD that carried a FN 5.7

 

[Hamster65]

Back when police departments were still issuing snub nose .357 magnums as service pieces, I had a cop girlfriend who carried that as her back up pistol in an ankle holster and a Ruger Vaquero 45 Colt with a 6" barrel on her hip.

 

[jimmyj]

The world's greatest, most handsome, sexist Police Officer Jimmy (cause my mommy says so) have use on duty:
1. U.S. M2 .30 caliber Carbine
2. U.S. M3 ..45 acp SMG
3. German 9 mm SMG
4. British Sten Gun 9 mm SMG
5. Russian AK 47 7.62X39 selective fire carbine
6. Ruger 5.56mm selective fire carbine
7. Reising .45 acp SMG
8. WWII Italian 9mm SMG (model w/2 triggers1 for semi and 1 for full auto)
9. Mac 10 .45 acp SMG

 

[jimmyj]

Unusual Guns

Many years ago, we were stopped by a FHP roadblock. There had been an officer shot and killed and they were hunting the killer pretty hard . One of the troopers was carrying an M1 carbine in a paratrooper stock with a 30 round magazine in it.

When I began LEO in 1962 the FHP replaced patrol car shotguns with U.S. M1 .30 caliber Carbines with folding stocks with one 30 round magazine and two 15 rounds magazine. The State of Florida paid $10.00 per Carbine from the Government

 

[Buford57]

Quote : I think just one US newspaper ran the comics, which were not family fare by strict US moral codes.

Must have been the Detroit Free Press, as I recall reading Modesty as a teenager.

Quote: I read and run images of scenes in my mind as I read. I can "see" her with a Cobra. I don't think Colt made the Agent in .32. Well, they did, but called it the Courier.

Arrested a hooker/drug mule outside a convenience store one night who had a .32 Detective Special (old style) under the car seat. No modesty in that situation at all.

 

[Buford57]

Once we get into long guns, our narcs used an old Lefever double, cut down to about 12" and nickel plated, as a raid gun. Extractors didn't work, but they weren't worried about reloads.

Mine was a Winchester 94 .30-30 "Trapper" with 16" barrel. And no, I don't look a thing like Chuck Connors.

 

[Faulkner]

Now back to the question at hand, the odd guns seen
in LEOs holsters: the Glock.

I'm sure you were trying to be funny but I find the Glock to be one of the best LEO firearms in use today. My department has been using .40 caliber Glocks now for at least 15 years and they have provided admirable service.

 

[4506517]

Smith & Wesson full size M & P 45.

..............oh wait, wrong thread.

 

[Gripgrabber]

Local sro JimmieJ's county carry FN 57x28. Someone said when JimmieJ was young he carried a musket and a cap and ball as a duty gun!!! LOL
Semper paratus

 

[Gripgrabber]

Local sro JimmieJ's county carry FN 57x28. Someone said when JimmieJ was young he carried a musket and a cap and ball as a duty gun!!! LOL
Semper paratus
Sorry JimmyJ (not JimmieJ)

 

[TAROMAN]

Not sure it counts, but a local detective carried a Springfield XD chambered in 45 GAP.

 

[Scott in NCal]

At the San Quention prision museum they have a Winchester 94 in 32-40 they say they used in the 1970 Marin County courthouse shoot out escape attempt. Interesting story, Anglia Davis was later found not guilty of anything even though she provided the weapon used to kill court officials. The SF bay area has been lost to the left for a long time

 

[TxShooter]

One of my academy classmates used a Hi-Point 9mm as a deputy Constable primarily serving civil papers. I also worked with a sworn dispatcher who carried a Taurus 24/7 9mm.

 

[Tex1001]

Hi-Point 380 carried by a uniformed rent-a-cop circa 1994.

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I don't have Alzheimer's- My wife had me tested.

 

[JayFramer]

Amazing thread! I can't believe some people were carrying cap n' ball revolvers!!

 

[clang444]

Back in the '80s I was a combat Engineer in West Germany sent by Uncle Sam to protect the Western World from the USSR. Our demolition material (mostly 25kg blocks of C4) were stored in bunkers or vaults all over the country side. German Vaultmeisters were in charge of securing the vaults and were armed with 9mm Uzi Submachine guns with detachable wooden stocks. They were generally a happy bunch and let us handle their weapons.

The biggest problem the Vaultmeisters had were the peaceniks always crazy gluing the key holes of the vault doors shut.

Some of the German airport security would also carry Uzis, but they never were very friendly...

 

[will527]

When I was a Court Deputy, we had to supply our own gear,, early years Model 19, last few years Model 629-1, 3" barrel. Loved to go to range. They pop-pop, me boom-boom.

 

[medic15al]

Amazing thread! I can't believe some people were carrying cap n' ball revolvers!!

Well, They are better armed than the .22, .25, and .32 Jennings and Lorcen/Bryco pocket guns.

 

[keith44spl]

Saw an ol court bailiff carrying an old mauser 7.65............


Not a sidearm,

But, I'd drag this'n outta the trunk of my car on dope raids sometimes....

Jest for old time sakes.

.

 

[CelticSire]

Back when police departments were still issuing snub nose .357 magnums as service pieces, I had a cop girlfriend who carried that as her back up pistol in an ankle holster and a Ruger Vaquero 45 Colt with a 6" barrel on her hip.

And you didn't marry her, why?