Curt Fesler
Member
I was here years ago and I'm returning. I saw another post about the Onion field book but I can't seem to find it on the board. Help! I worked around the surviving Officer, a broken man. He later pensioned off and worked as a gardener, later died an alcoholic.
The LAPD carried 6 Inch revolvers, S&W and Colt, up until around the 70s and then switched to a casturated 4" Smith. Rounds authorized were either the 200 grain or 158 grain. The 4" Smith, a model 14, I believe, had been altered to fire double action only. Evidently too many bad guys died accidently when the policeman placed a cocked revolver against the head. In the eighties they began allowing Semi Auto pistols if you purchased them on your own. Latter on they issued them to new officers.
I don't know how to post pictures but own Dad's 6 " S&W he used on the dept when he went on in 1950 and my 4" S&W issued in the 70s. The 6" Colt Officers Model I was issued in 1964 was taken back and sold to a wholesaler. I knew one officer who managed to track down his
Colt and buy it back. The reason they got away from the Colt was they were not suitable for double action shooting that they now taught.
The Onion field incident promped a policy of never giving up your gun under any circumstances.
The LAPD carried 6 Inch revolvers, S&W and Colt, up until around the 70s and then switched to a casturated 4" Smith. Rounds authorized were either the 200 grain or 158 grain. The 4" Smith, a model 14, I believe, had been altered to fire double action only. Evidently too many bad guys died accidently when the policeman placed a cocked revolver against the head. In the eighties they began allowing Semi Auto pistols if you purchased them on your own. Latter on they issued them to new officers.
I don't know how to post pictures but own Dad's 6 " S&W he used on the dept when he went on in 1950 and my 4" S&W issued in the 70s. The 6" Colt Officers Model I was issued in 1964 was taken back and sold to a wholesaler. I knew one officer who managed to track down his
Colt and buy it back. The reason they got away from the Colt was they were not suitable for double action shooting that they now taught.
The Onion field incident promped a policy of never giving up your gun under any circumstances.
