Recent content by Dborn

The way I read it, when the FBI was going to switch to a more modern hi-cap gun after the Florida incident, they were considering going to the 10mm cartridge. But in testing they found that some female agents couldn't control the gun, so they opted for the .40 S&W cartridge instead, the .40...

Just going by what the guy at the gun shop told me about it being an FBI order overrun by S&W, and various things i heard over the years. being as it's been used and shot, it's value as a collectible is long gone. I did carry it recently when I broke my left wrist, and for a while I couldn't...

I bought and have worn my "Hostiles" bronze belt buckle since I bought it new in 1975 or 6. Never thought of it as a collectible. Only time I didn't wear it was when I flew on airlines. Figured it would drive the security guys nuts, and it's so heavy they would confiscate it as a potential...

FBI Model 60 The FBI did, indeed, order a batch of J-frame Model 60's from S&W back in the early '70s. S&W made more than the FBI ordered, in .38 Spl. with a 3" heavy barrel, and sent the overrun guns to gun shops. I saw one when I was buying gas at a station that was also a gun shop, and...