I know I am way late on this.
From experience, many guns of this type and vintage were in fact glove box guns.
Everybody in Texas, in those years, had one stuck in the glove box---it lived there.
That is typical of those that I saw when growing up in Texas--and the condition of them was this description.
Used to could find them all over the place--but you boys got 'em all hoarded up now.
Good shooters-those old glove box guns.
Blessings