Let's see your Law Enforcement Marked Smiths!
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22lrfan
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I picked up this 27-2 in a trade several years ago. Should be from around 1976. The guy I got it from bought it as a police trade in when he lived in northern VA. I guess it could be Alexandria, VA or Annapolis, MD. Probably many more towns in the area beginning with A. It had rubber stocks on it when I got it. The trigger has been replaced at some point. I need to get a letter on it some day.
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jsfricks
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It’s from 2012 to a previous owner so I’m not sure if they would. Thanks for the update, I’ve never looked it up.
Kool, Austin (Texas) Police department.I picked up this 27-2 in a trade several years ago. Should be from around 1976. The guy I got it from bought it as a police trade in when he lived in northern VA. I guess it could be Alexandria, VA or Annapolis, MD. Probably many more towns in the area beginning with A. It had rubber stocks on it when I got it. The trigger has been replaced at some point. I need to get a letter on it some day.
The APD number on yours is close enough to mine that it may appear on the same shipping list to Austin PD...Mine is highlighted in green below...And I agree you should letter it...I picked up this 27-2 in a trade several years ago. Should be from around 1976. The guy I got it from bought it as a police trade in when he lived in northern VA. I guess it could be Alexandria, VA or Annapolis, MD. Probably many more towns in the area beginning with A. It had rubber stocks on it when I got it. The trigger has been replaced at some point. I need to get a letter on it some day.
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22lrfan
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The APD number on yours is close enough to mine that it may appear on the same shipping list to Austin PD...Mine is highlighted in green below...And I agree you should letter it...
I was hoping to find mine on that list but it's N396xxx.
Hotrodcorvette1976
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A deep dive request to Mike Helms after you receive your letter from Don Mundell just might net you a similar list featuring your gun...
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Dept of Treasury. Couldn't get the gun but got the side plate
Take what you can get!
No pics at the moment but I have a few :
S&W mdl 28 marked TXDPS
S&W mdl 681 marked S.A.P.R. San Antonio Park Rangers now known as San Antonio Park Police
Glock MDL 17 with words spelled out San Antonio police Department
S&W mdl 12 Two inch barrel marked UTPD University of Texas Police Dept.
Used to have a Winchester 94 marked TXDPS but gave it to a former trooper friend
S&W mdl 28 marked TXDPS
S&W mdl 681 marked S.A.P.R. San Antonio Park Rangers now known as San Antonio Park Police
Glock MDL 17 with words spelled out San Antonio police Department
S&W mdl 12 Two inch barrel marked UTPD University of Texas Police Dept.
Used to have a Winchester 94 marked TXDPS but gave it to a former trooper friend
San Francisco PD Model 58. My favorite that's actually marked happens to be a Marlin rifle. You don't see many PD marked lever guns.
A real copper 58. Not every day you see that!
I had one. Used it on the ranch for a few years. What a boat anchor...
It happens to have been involved in a very curious occurrence...
I had to put a ewe lamb down in a shed. I shot the sheep with the 58, realizing after the shot that the bullet had exited and struck just at the bottom of the corrugated metal side of the old GI cast off Quonset. I went outside to see where the bullet went and there...just waltzing by, minding its own business was a dead mouse with a .41 caliber bullet hole thru it!
The bullet had gone thru the sheep's head, then the corrugated metal right above the ground, then thru the unsuspecting mouse, then the dirt.
BTW, Idaho state police used to issue Smith Heavy Duty .38's and Savage 99's in .300 Savage to their patrol officers. Even today that would not be too bad a battery if things got out of hand.
RE: Long arms, I've got a 20" bbl Mississippi Transportation Dept Remington 870 Police Magnum and a Washington State Corrections 870 Magnum w/ 18 1/4" bbl. The latter has night sights, too, and is a very handy gun. Most unique thing about it is it is one of the few Police guns issued with a fixed Modified choke. Slays the ground squirrels.
Jcon72
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Nothing sophisticated, but here is a NY Dept. of Corrections 10-10 I picked up not long ago. For a DOC piece it appears to have been pretty well cared for.
Nothing sophisticated, but here is a NY Dept. of Corrections 10-10 I picked up not long ago. For a DOC piece it appears to have been pretty well cared for.
How is that ID plate secured to the frame?
Jcon72
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Some sort of an adhesive.
Jcon72
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Just curious; what number is on your tag?
