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Quiz on a firearm

Sld1959 said:
www.americanrifleman.org

An Official Journal Of The NRA | A History Of FBI Handguns

The FBI has issued a wide variety of handguns to its agents over the years.
www.americanrifleman.org www.americanrifleman.org

According to this article the 1911 in .38 Super was used in 1938 by the FBI. Guessing it was because of bullet proof vests done criminals were using.

I thought I had read that somewhere.
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1934 for the S&W .35 .

I’d say maybe IL was first to mandate a semi auto across the force, but police agency's were using semi auto’s long before the late ‘60s
 
Carried or “issued”?

Carried various FBI agents and Texas Rangers as well as many others carried the 1911 early on and the crime wave with automobiles throughout the late 1920’s is why the 38 Super in the 1911 came about.

As far as “issued” Illinois with the S&W 39 9mm 1967 and Connecticut State Police with Beretta 92 in 1983
 
In 1967 I worked a summer job at the conservation area of the Illinois State Fairgrounds. During the fair there was a trooper at every gate. I became friends with the trooper at our gate and had many discussions with him. He was excited about their new Model 39 pistol. He told me about having bent the barrel of his previously issued 6" revolver in a fight when he whacked a suspect over the head with it. Desperate circumstances and desperate action. He also told me of another trooper who had been in fight for his pistol in a gun grab and was able to hit the magazine release and make the gun inoperable. He believed that saved his life.

Years later in the 1970's I was an agent in Air Force OSI when we were looking for a replacement for our Model 36 duty revolvers. When asked many of us asked for the S&W Model 39, based on the experience of ISP. Instead we got a chopped 1911 that had come out of mothballs. That lasted until the Beretta andvthen the Sig P228/M11.
 
youngolddude said:
I heard the Texas Rangers supplied their own weapons. Quite a few adopted the 1911.
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"In 1910 a member of Company C requested that the quartermaster ask the Colt company the price of a 16 gauge automatic shotgun with the shortest barrel you make- he wants it for night work and close range. Two years later Ranger Paul McAlister was using a Colt .45 automatic. And by 1913, The assistant quarter master general was "Recommending strongly to all Texas Rangers that they arm themselves with the new Government Model Colt Automatic Caliber .45"
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From the book, "The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution" by Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler
Published 2004
 
HayesGreener said:
In 1967 I worked a summer job at the conservation area of the Illinois State Fairgrounds. During the fair there was a trooper at every gate. I became friends with the trooper at our gate and had many discussions with him. He was excited about their new Model 39 pistol. He told me about having bent the barrel of his previously issued 6" revolver in a fight when he whacked a suspect over the head with it. Desperate circumstances and desperate action. He also told me of another trooper who had been in fight for his pistol in a gun grab and was able to hit the magazine release and make the gun inoperable. He believed that saved his life.

Years later in the 1970's I was an agent in Air Force OSI when we were looking for a replacement for our Model 36 duty revolvers. When asked many of us asked for the S&W Model 39, based on the experience of ISP. Instead we got a chopped 1911 that had come out of mothballs. That lasted until the Beretta andvthen the Sig P228/M11.
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Not to get off topic but I think it’s hilarious USAF OSI told big AF to get bent and adopted Gen 5 Glock 19’s because of the Sig M18 debacle. Good for them.

I remember learning about the cut down 1911’s OSI ran but never saw one in The wild. I started in 1986 and know they snagged the Sig M11/228 early on when Sig introduced them around 1989 ish
 
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