The 1076 was a joy to shoot.I recall it had an impressive muzzle flash during the required night shoots. It was heavy for daily routine carry under jacket, but it's heftiest and power was somehow comforting. The decocker was difficult to manipulate without changing your grip....never came across the 11-15 round magazines...would have been a nice addition.
FBI Model 1076
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larryh1108
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Several listed on GB for under 1k. Worth a look if you want one.
I'm not an expert on the 1076 but a large difference in value exists between 1076's that are alike in features to the ones sold to the FBI and guns that can be documented to have been owned by the FBI. A gun that is like the one owned by say Wyatt Earp is not the same price as one actually owned by Earp. I just looked on Gunbroker and none of the guns there are stated to be actual FBI guns. Part of the reason for this is that relatively few guns owned by the FBI actually become available to the civilian market therefore there is an added collector interest in any firearm that can be proven to have belonged to the FBI.
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I agree that the number of actual issue FBI guns that actually made it into the field from the Quantico vault may be smaller than it would seem...when I received my 1076 in the Baltimore Division, many agents were opting for Sig P228s over the heavy 10mm. New agents coming out of Quantico had the 10mm. As for the vets in the field, some agents still carried Smith revolvers such as the Model 13. SWAT agents also seemed to carry mostly Sig P226s. 10mm's seemed to have a fairly short issue time frame before they were withdrawn.
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Which is a shame, it's such a formidable and responsive round. The 10xx is extremely thin with the original S&W plastic grips on and very easy to conceal, albeit a bit hefty, but much flatter than a 1911 by far especially in the grip area were it counts when your trying to conceal it. Mine get regular holster time, it's very comforting to have on.
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exfedagent
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Blade59 this is Echo59-Commerce (retired 1811). I have S&W Model 1076 Serial Number TFK6067! I am thinking that mine was in the same batch as yours. My S&W letter states that mine was shipped to Quantico on 11-4-90; returned from the Bureau on 06-03-92 and sold as a used pistol on 02-28-94. Before it was shipped to the Bureau it was shipped on 09-10-90 to the State of Minnesota, Center of Criminal Justice in St. Paul for evaluation and returned to S&W on 09-14-90.
That's gonna leave a mark! 
I hear Tupperware will send you a letter on your M&P for free
Hey Echo 59/ --now that's interesting--sounds like a similar small batch of 10mms made the very short (less than a week) trip to the Minnesota Criminal Justice Center and then headed to Quantico for FBI issue . These guns stayed in the Bureau for a couple of years and then either went civilian surplus like yours or over to Virginia State Police like Scottmon and my pistol did... I'm still surprised that VSP would accept any pistols which had been issued/used by another agency previously.... thanks for the responses!
