What unusual or unlikely guns have you seen used buy LEOs?

[federali]

Back when Dirty Harry was the rage, I met an off duty cop at a social that was packing an S&W .44 Magnum under his jacket. The gun printed badly.

An NYPD anti-crime detective I knew always carried a Browning HP.

 

[Texas Star]

Quote : I think just one US newspaper ran the comics, which were not family fare by strict US moral codes.

Must have been the Detroit Free Press, as I recall reading Modesty as a teenager.

Quote: I read and run images of scenes in my mind as I read. I can "see" her with a Cobra. I don't think Colt made the Agent in .32. Well, they did, but called it the Courier.

Arrested a hooker/drug mule outside a convenience store one night who had a .32 Detective Special (old style) under the car seat. No modesty in that situation at all.

You're apparently referring to my post about fictional and comics heroine Modesty Blaise.

Yes, it was the Detroit Free Press that ran the comics in the USA. It also appeared in 57 other nations that are less restrictive on censorship.

 

[medic15al]

Back when Dirty Harry was the rage, I met an off duty cop at a social that was packing an S&W .44 Magnum under his jacket. The gun printed badly.

An NYPD anti-crime detective I knew always carried a Browning HP.

You knew Frank Serpico???

 

[mrmike7189]

There are a couple of comments above about police units utilizing Ruger Mini 14's.

A former chief at my department absolutely refused to allow us to have any "military, type black rifles". As a result our patrol rifle and the rifles used by our tactical team were the Ruger AC556. Basically a Mini 14 with full auto capability. We used them for 15 years or more and didn't feel handicapped.

When a new administration came on board in the late '90's we transitioned to the M-4's. By then I was in charge of the weapons and was absolutely shocked by what we were given as trade in value for the AC556's. They were transferrable and we ended up getting four Bushmaster M-4 A-3's for each AC556.

I would love one of those! There are many of those Mini 14s being used by leo's across the country still today. I think CA dept of Corrections still has them?

 

[jhnttrpp]

If memory serves...it was called .."McCloud" ......from Taos NM...

McCloud was played by Dennis Weaver who also played Chester on Gunsmoke.

 

[Papaw]

A Dallas cop I know used to carry a 6 inch 629 .44 mag. Impressive.

 

[kaaskop49]

Many years ago, I would hang out in a small LGS that cops would frequent. One carried off-duty a cut-down snub nose Colt New Service in .45LC. It was not "Fitzed," it had the full trigger guard. His partner, a gunsmith and the shop owner, carried a Model 58 .41 Magnum on which he had installed adjustable sights. Was the 1st handgun I ever fired!

I also knew a NYPD officer who carried a Dan Wesson .38.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[TX-Dennis]

There's a local deputy in his late 70s still working. He still carries a Colt 1911. Once that was pretty common, but it is VERY unusual these days when just about everyone else carries a Glock.

 

[Buford57]

There's a local deputy in his late 70s still working. He still carries a Colt 1911. Once that was pretty common, but it is VERY unusual these days when just about everyone else carries a Glock.

My local PD uses the 1911 exclusively. Mostly stainless. Just remembered another detective who carried a Radom.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

Back in the olden days of the 50s and 60s a tiny little police department under the city hall didn't have standard sidearms. Lt. Cowles carried a three-fifty-seven Colt. Another part timer carried a Victory Model Surplus and "The Englishman" carried a .38 Enfield DAO. He used the Enfield once on duty which Lt. Cowles called the best pistol shot he'd ever seen. Two hits on a rabid dog at sixty feet withing five feet of a little girl.
We kids used to go to the police range by the lake every Saturday and see if the police were shooting.
Geoff
Who notes the Lt. never made Chief, so we elected him Mayor a couple of times.

 

[Farmer17]

I was in Cancun Mexico a few years ago and was at a money exchange kiosk and the young, skinny guard standing next to it was holding an old bolt action hunting rifle with full length Mannlicher stock.

 

[Drm50]

Back a few years we had a active sniper randomly killing innocent
people. This is a rural area and it was some scary times if you
had to work outdoors. During the period this guy was on the loose the LEOs were carrying everything but the kitchen sink.
Deer rifles, Varmit guns, Assult rifles, all types of shotguns and
a lot of long barreled revolvers. I lent out a couple 30/06 deer
guns to Deputies. Sadly they didn't get to shoot the guy, he was
arrested without a fight.