Criminal minds (Reids gun and holster)

[Rule3]

One thing that's interesting is that both, in real life are excellent singers.

Back to Reid. He is a genius and a walking computer, he can carry anything, anywhere he wants.

Without him and Penelope, the "team" would be lost.

 

[sigp220.45]

I've never seen the show, but Texas Star has it right as far as current Bureau guns go. No one is authorized any kind of revolver. This caused great consternation when it came out, since a lot of guys still had J frames as backups and off-duty guns.

Anything other than a Glock is a rarity these days. My Sig is personally owned and grandfathered in. All Bureau issued Sigs have been recalled and replaced with Glocks. All Smiths are verboten now, even personally owned ones. I was qualifying a guy with a 1076 until around 2005 when the gun vault demanded he return it or face disciplinary action.

The vast majority of FBI Glocks are 22s, with a bunch of 23s coming out with newer classes.

Lots of guys also have 27s, which are all personally-owned, Bureau-approved guns.

A few guys carry personally owned 21s.

The 1911 is authorized for current and former SWAT members who have been through the transition course for it. Its the Springfield single stack, and guys that are authorized it can buy the same model from Springfield and carry that as a personally owned gun.

 

[fiasconva]

I think when the show first started he was carrying a Glock. He took out a bad guy with it in one head shot. After being praised for his good shooting he stated he was shooting at the guy's leg. Reason for the switch?

 

[Rule3]

I think when the show first started he was carrying a Glock. He took out a bad guy with it in one head shot. After being praised for his good shooting he stated he was shooting at the guy's leg. Reason for the switch?

Probably not, just that he is not a gun guy and got lucky.
The show has been on for so long there is bound to be changes, perhaps not factually correct.

Here is the whole list of firearms. Click on discussion in the upper left by the crossed rifles.

Criminal Minds - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

 

[Texas Star]

I think when the show first started he was carrying a Glock. He took out a bad guy with it in one head shot. After being praised for his good shooting he stated he was shooting at the guy's leg. Reason for the switch?

Unless the leg was the only target available (obviously not, in this case) he should be reminded to shoot for center mass. Shooting people in the leg/arm/shooting the gun out of his hand mostly happens in movies and on TV. Even Modesty Blaise in those terrific thrillers written by Peter O'Donnell usually shot to kill, and she was a fantastic shot.

I know only one man who deliberately shot a foe in the leg, and he did that to get him to drop beneath a big truck trailer, where he'd have a better shot at his torso. Thankfully, that worked, and the good guy is still with us. Has a Purple Heart and two Oak Leaves, but basically intact. He used a 9mm. The insurgent evidently hadn't read that 9mm ball was ineffective, and died promptly, having sustained a couple of hits in the chest.

 

[scooter123]

My understanding is the Ried carries that revolver because he is miserable shooting a Glock. While it's definately not an approved firearm in todays FBI the show is after all fiction.

Personally I find many of the story lines a bit too creepy so I don't follow the show closely. However I will tune in occasionally when the story line is somewhat reasonable.

 

[Revolver M65]

I think when the show first started he was carrying a Glock. He took out a bad guy with it in one head shot. After being praised for his good shooting he stated he was shooting at the guy's leg. Reason for the switch?

I think that that was a joke more or less. I think that the reason for the switch was that in several other episodes Reid has had to shoot somebody (with a revolver mid you) also the revolver symbolizes a kind of chance. Reid has almost been kind by a revolver as well in a Game of Russian Ru-let. Or he could have just Figured out revolvers are superior to Semi Autos (to each man his own right)

 

[amazingflapjack]

The picture of this TV character that was posted looks different than the last time I watched this show, which was several years ago. At that time I seem to remember a longer barreld piece in a non-discript holster that hung almost at 1 o'clock-right out front. If the picture is an accurate depiction of his new setup, I would have to say that I favor it, especially if I were mounted-or sitting down. The nice thing about a slight rearward cant is that it is easily moved to the weak side for cross draw. I use the IWB appendix carry, which is what I seem to see inthe picture, except it is being worn on the outside. An exposed trigger guard means a Tom Threepersons holster or equivalent, which I also favor. Everyone should, in my view, use what he can access with confidence. I seem to remember some of those old photos of Bill The Kid. His revolver position looked kind of funky to me, but, given the oportunity, I'd have passed on trying to reach over to take it away from him. Flapjack.

 

[Revolver M65]

The picture of this TV character that was posted looks different than the last time I watched this show, which was several years ago. At that time I seem to remember a longer barreld piece in a non-discript holster that hung almost at 1 o'clock-right out front. If the picture is an accurate depiction of his new setup, I would have to say that I favor it, especially if I were mounted-or sitting down. The nice thing about a slight rearward cant is that it is easily moved to the weak side for cross draw. I use the IWB appendix carry, which is what I seem to see inthe picture, except it is being worn on the outside. An exposed trigger guard means a Tom Threepersons holster or equivalent, which I also favor. Everyone should, in my view, use what he can access with confidence. I seem to remember some of those old photos of Bill The Kid. His revolver position looked kind of funky to me, but, given the oportunity, I'd have passed on trying to reach over to take it away from him. Flapjack.

Throughout the progression of the seasons Reid has changed his look in the most recent season he has shorter hair and wears more stylish clothing. Last time he shot anything other than his Model 65 was season 4 and it was a stander Glock 17 but he still wore it in the same place. I think it would be uncomfortable in when sitting, I think I would also attribute the position of the holster to him not being the most "forceful" person and he wears it that way to show power.

 

[Revolver M65]

Some more pictures

Found some more pictures some a really good pics of the holster hope there is a answerer about what kind it is.

 

[Muley Gil]

Looks like a Bianchi. IIRC, the model is a 5BH.

http://www.bianchi-intl.com/product/Prod.php?TxtModelID=5BH

 

[smitret]

Reid's gun

I think that that was a joke more or less. I think that the reason for the switch was that in several other episodes Reid has had to shoot somebody (with a revolver mid you) also the revolver symbolizes a kind of chance. Reid has almost been kind by a revolver as well in a Game of Russian Ru-let. Or he could have just Figured out revolvers are superior to Semi Autos (to each man his own right)

Reid was a hostage on the floor when he made that head shot.
Hotch kicked Reid so Reid could take Hotch's ankle gun to
make the shot.

 

[Revolver M65]

Reid was a hostage on the floor when he made that head shot.
Hotch kicked Reid so Reid could take Hotch's ankle gun to
make the shot.

That was actual in an earlier season in 2x15 (Revelations) Reid is kidnapped and shoots an unsub with only one bullet in the gun That is were the chance cones in

This is the like to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCul3uqLXrw

 

[grcoffman104]

The actors mom owns a ranch he stated in a interview. She raised him on revolvers. He expresed the deside to producers that he toate a wheel gun in her honor.

 

[ajgunner]

I vote for dropping the chatter about Reid and get some pictures and chat going on JJ. ----The only real reason some of us watch the show.

 

[snuffy51]

Criminal Minds

I love the show, even watch re-runs on Me TV. I don't try to analyze everything, I just watch it. Penelope is the best character on the show. I also think the real FBI probably keeps a watch on the writers, some of them must be off their medications. Don't worry, I take mine everyday.

 

[rednichols]

In four years, no one completely worked it out? Indeed as one forum member stated, it's a Bianchi and in the 5BH mould -- but likely it's a 56L, which is the paddle version of the 5BH and would have been chosen for the quick on / quick off benefit; and is a holster model that I created for Bianchi in the 70s.

Many cop shows today -- CSI Cyber and The Mysteries of Laura and State of Affairs that I know of -- use paddle holsters and in this location; my belief is that the style is chosen as being easiest on the wardrobe person, and the location is chosen to showcase the pistol in every view. I suspect different actors in the same show are using the very same holstered pistol, too.

Perhaps not a coincidence -- the latter three shows all use a black paddle holster for Glocks that I created for Aker in the 90s.

 

[kbm6893]

I recall the episode that explains it. Reid got permission to use he revolver because he couldn't hit the side of a barn while standing inside it with the Glock. Don't know why they even made a story of it since he so rarely even takes the gun out. Probably to emphasize how he is the brains of the group, and not so good at the physical side of police work.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Haven't watched the show in a few years..... wife finds the plots too creepy.

I have to agree with Muliegirl............Bianchi 5BHL.......the "L" is lined. It was pretty much the gold standard for revolvers w/ retention in the 70s and 80s.

The gun is a 3" 65 the stainless version of the 13 which was the FBI issue gun in the 70 and 80s IIRC.

How he got "grandfathered"...... hey it's TV....paperwork doesn't matter...... but I remember he couldn't qualify or shoot worth _______!




As a rant: I wish TV would do away with Glocks..... lets see some style and personality in characters carry guns......

Spencer's Beretta
Hawks Model 29
Miami Vice....... need I say more
Magnums... .45

 

[ajgunner]

Lets have a chat about this holster and how she wears it.