Revisited: What unlikely guns have you seen LEO/security guards use on the job?

[Old Corp]

In the late 70's I was attending college in an Eastern NC town. To fight boredom, buddies and I would visit the one and only local indoor mall.
Shadowed a mall security guy on a stroll and got a really good look at his duty 'weapon', the first I'd seen there. All other guards were unarmed.

The 'weapon', in a black basketweave duty rig was a Colt Python replica gun. I could see the zinc mold seams on it and plastic wood lookalike grips.
I was amazed.

 

[Walter Rego]

In the early 70's I worked after school on the loading dock of one of the old White Front department stores. The security guard that sat there was armed with a 6" Llama revolver chambered in .22 Magnum. He said it was more effective than a .38 loaded with round nosed lead slugs which is what the other guards carried.

 

[Pondoro]

I flew to Europe a lot around the time of the 9/11 attacks. In one former Communist country I visited their equivalent of NASA. It was a "campus" with several buildings surrounded by a chain link fence, only one gate was open unless large equipment was being moved. That gate was guarded by really old dudes in really old uniforms without guns. After the attacks they donned old rusty Makarovs that looked like they had not been fired in years.

After the attacks Rome's airport had guards up on a balcony that surrounded the main ticketing area. They stood at "parade rest" wearing berets and some type of short-barreled guns across their chests. Right finger on the trigger.

 

[Muley Gil]

I actually worked with a patrol cop in the late 80's who carried a privately owned Norinco SKS as a patrol rifle. He thought....... well, I don't know what he was thinking.

What's wrong with using an SKS as a patrol rifle, so long as he can hit with it? The 7.62x39 is close to a .30-30 as far as power and lots of Western police officers have carried those in their patrol cars.

 

[Pondoro]

What's wrong with using an SKS as a patrol rifle, so long as he can hit with it? The 7.62x39 is close to a .30-30 as far as power and lots of Western police officers have carried those in their patrol cars.

Agreed, SKS' were a poor man's AR back when they cost $90

 

[Texas Star]

I once guarded a house in a very rich neighborhood where some heirs were squabbling over an inheritance. A judge declared this house off limits for them until the case was decided. The company furnished an old single-shot 20 ga. I looked at the several shells provided and all the primers were dented. Duds or reloads without new primers... I think the firing pin was also broken. Just a scarecrow of a gun.

I later protected a construction site where they'd had thefts on weekends and they brought out this same shotgun or one very like it. This was to augment my .38 M-10 S&W. The way they talked before I saw the shotgun, I was expecting a Remington or Ithaca pump in good shape. I was on my own, and it'd have been a comfort.

Most security companies are disgusting to work for. Some can't even get the payroll right. I always had to keep a record of hours worked unless I had a fixed post assignment with a set number of hours.