I am seeing a poor abused model 10 for sale here in SLC. I don't know how to move the picture from the ad but it looks like someone cut off part of the trigger guard. Was this something that was popular in the past? Why would someone abuse their gun like that? Is there any way to fix the poor thing?

You know how people do dumb things to pistols because the internet told them too? well back in the old days, same thing except it was magazines and books.

Likely tried to recreate a "Fitz special"

The FitzGerald Special

You can fix anything, but I think the cost would be far more than the guns value.

Yes...it looks exactly like that. Looks kind of dangerous to carry.

I hope Fitzgerald is burning in Hell for inspiring thousands of people to ruin good guns. Some guy on the Colt Forum recently butchered an Official Police in this fashion so it is still occurring.

It seems to me IIRC Ed McGivern had a cut out on one of his revolvers. I don't know if he ever used it for exhibition shooting or not.

+1 on what he said because it is a shame .

Doesn't Tom Selleck carry a Fitz Special on his current tv series?

I believe I recall an article by Bill Jordan from back in the early 70s where he advocated bobbing the hammer and narrowing the trigger guard rather than removing the front of it completely. I believe the revolver pictured in the article was a Model 19 4" barrel. He had narrowed the right side of the trigger guard on the front part of it. I guess if one had hands and fingers the size of Bill's, and was capable of the speed he was capable of, it wasn't such a bad idea to remove a possible impediment. Certainly better than the butcher jobs the guns pictured in the linked article endured.

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I believe that Sellecks gun is an unaltered early Colt DS, the actor portraying his father called it his old "Fitz Special". It's funny because I don't think the real NYPD still authorizes any Colt revolvers?
I'm not a fan of this alteration either! Dale

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looks like a nice way to shoot yourself in the foot

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It's mentioned that he carries one in the pilot, but in a later episode he shoots a BG who's holding his daughter at knifepoint with what looks like a 442.

His father (the former police commissioner) occasionally carries what appears to be a Fitz Special, but it's only been shown holstered, so it's difficult to be certain.

IN any case, I really like the fact that Tom Selleck strives for accuracy whenever firearms are used in his movies/TV programs.

I can see someone doing this in 1932 Chicago or something, but for some idiot to cut a piece of the trigger guard off a revolver in 2011 is just pure stupidity, there's just no need for it.

I always laugh at the idiots who try to sell S&W's and Colt that looked like someone "Fitzed" them with a Dremel tool.......