FBI agents 38-44 Heavy Duty

[bracebeemer]

I did a major trade last week and one of the guns I acquired was this wonderful 38-44 Heavy Duty. This gun has a lot going for it! It's a pre war with 99% high polish blue. It was shipped with the uncommon 4" bbl., factory hump back hammer and silver medallion magma grips and delivered to an FBI special agent in my birthplace of Detroit Michigan. I just love it! Here are some photos I took. Bill

 

[M E Morrison]

I did a major trade last week and one of the guns I acquired was this wonderful 38-44 Heavy Duty. This gun has a lot going for it! It's a pre war with 99% high polish blue. It was shipped with the uncommon 4" bbl., factory hump back hammer and silver medallion magma grips and delivered to an FBI special agent in my birthplace of Detroit Michigan. I just love it! Here are some photos I took. Bill

very, very nice! did the holster come with it?

 

[bracebeemer]

Here's a few more pictures.

 

[Old_Cop]

Wow, the centerpiece of a collection for me.

 

[Art Doc]

Muy bueno.

 

[Absalom]

Aha, "Alcohol Tax Unit". The end of prohibition apparently didn't stop bootleggers, and law enforcers needed to be well-armed.

Your letter made me remember another Heavy Duty that was discussed here with the same destination, albeit in another city and within a different federal agency:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...resting-provenance.html?576347=#post140250763

 

[mk70ss]

Outstanding acquisition, wish it were in my safe, not yours!

 

[series guy]

Wow that is a beauty. Looks all business.

 

[quinn]

Simply outstanding!

 

[bracebeemer]

Merle, the holster did not come with the gun. I've ownef this carved S.D.Myres for 35 years. I bought a 4 screw M28 4" like new with target grips. I still own the 4-screw and the holster was a throw in although I remember the seller saying he liked the holster better than the gun.

 

[The_Truth]

Stunning. FBI guns are super cool!

 

[gman51]

Excellent find.

 

[Gene L]

Wonderful revolver, and btw OP, I'm probably one of the few members here that knows who Brace Beemer was.

 

[Bob L]

One beautiful revolver with some great history. Looking at the first two pictures, I was thinking that it was actually nickle, not blue. It is stunning. Congratulations on that trade.

 

[LPD256]

Wonderful revolver, and btw OP, I'm probably one of the few members here that knows who Brace Beemer was.

Hi-yo and away.....

 

[Walter Rego]

If the agent didn't have the cash for a Registered Magnum or felt that an N Framed, fixed sight revolver loaded with the .38/44 heavy police loads would serve him just fine, that gun sure would fit the bill. Outstanding and all business.

 

[deyomatic]

If the agent didn't have the cash for a Registered Magnum...

They had to buy them themselves? Only this week I was reading a history from my Grandfather in Law (who I never met) who was an agent in the 40s-70s and the telegram offering him the job stated that he was to go to the FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue "at his own expense," and somewhere else it states that per diem is not available to him. What a bunch of cheap-os!

 

[1Aspenhill]

Great HD! There are several other 4" in the same serial number range.
Bill

 

[sigp220.45]

They had to buy them themselves? Only this week I was reading a history from my Grandfather in Law (who I never met) who was an agent in the 40s-70s and the telegram offering him the job stated that he was to go to the FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue "at his own expense," and somewhere else it states that per diem is not available to him. What a bunch of cheap-os!

If an Agent wanted something other than the current issue (at that time a 4" Colt OP or Smith M&P) he'd have to pay for it himself.

When I joined the Bureau in 1991 lots of revolvers were on the POW list - all Smiths. Anything that was blue (steel frame) or stainless in .38 or .357 with a 4" or less barrel was on the list. The regs said no guns made prior to 1958 would be approved "except N frames". I had a 3 1/2" non-registered pre-war Magnum on my POW list - the oldest gun on active duty in the Bureau at the time.

That's a cool gun. Congrats to the OP.

 

[mh51]

You might as well end your post with..."The last gun I'll ever buy". Not sure how you can top that one!!