CSI Issue Handgun

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The BHP is skinny for a full sized pistol. BHP or Colt 1911 (call me silly but Colt is still on the Denver PD's 'approved' list) If you can only have 8 rounds might as well have 8 rounds of .45.

Depending on how much 'reality' tv you watch... like "The First 48" some dpeartments don't HAVE CSI's.. the detectives do the science work too. (I'm pretty sure that's the case in Phoenix... I was suprised to see a homicide detective packing a 1911 Colt.)

The P7 is cool... but pricey.

As far as the rifle in the trunk would it fit in there with all the lab gear? I mean hey all of us aren't driving Miami/Dade's H2's.
 
I think the revolver should do great. .38+p is good ammo, wheelguns are reliable, accurate and easy to use.

The most important thing is how each of the listed arms feel in the shooters hands. The one that feels the best should be chosen.
 
The 1911 first...the Hi-Power as a close second. Old school...old school my ass....they just work well and are comfortable, period.

I can pick up either of mine, after not shooting them for a long time, and do pretty well with either. My Sig, and others take a few mags for me to "settle into."

-Brickboy240
 
If I am a csi..by the time I get there everone involved will probably already be dead :p so......I'd like to go with the G17..but with all those chemicals around I'd be afraid it would melt my plastic gun ;)
so maybe the revolver..just so the other csi's would point and mumble to eachother :D
( the only gun I have on that list is the G17 BTW)
 
If you were a real CSI you would not be allowed to carry a gun. The TV show is mixing three different jobs into one. If you have ever had the displeasure of sitting through a crime scene school, you would probably not like the show so much. Most crime scene techs are not police officers and the lab people are generally not either. If you are out of luck and work in a smaller department, you might get stuck with the crimes processing as the junior detective or even as an unlucky patrol officer. Crawling on your hands and knees picking hair out of carpet is not my idea of fun. :barf:

So my answer would be: "I think you made mistake, I am not allowed to carry a gun. Now where do I go to be issued my camera and my tweezers."

Now, if I were a TV CSI I would go with the GLOCK 17.
 
As seen on the "The First 48" lady cop collecting DNA/Prints/other evidence at crime scene vacated by fugitives going back over the border... "I'm not fishing out the %$#! they left in the toilet for DNA"

She was packing a Glock.
 
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Personally I would giggle like a school girl if they were gonna give me a gun to play with. :D :neener:

Personal preference would be the BHP or CZ

For duty however I would probably go Glock.

Ugly as sin but work everytime
 
Medical Examiner crime scene investigators here in San Antonio are occasionally sworn LEOs who can carry. Not all of them, but a few. MEs (the Docs themselves) in Miami can carry to crime scenes. Not sure if they get some sort of "pass" from the LEOs or if they just get a CCW and do it on their own. Just heard it from a guy who did his fellowship there.

If I have to go to the scene, you can bet your ass someone there had better be armed. Crime doesn't usually happen in the nice neighborhoods and everyone else doesn't clear out just because someone died. My favorite CSI was when the suspect was hiding under the bed and nailed the investigator wandering around in Condition White. Sucker!!

The CSI show does blend together a lot of people. Here in SA the lab techs never leave the building, and the MEs rarely go to a scene. It is all handled by the cops and the investigators (who don't do any lab work themselves).

CSI is glitzy and fun, but I would love to see a competent attorney destroy their "evidence" that they developed themselves, using on-the-fly techniques, with no competency tests, QA, standards measurment, procedure documentation, and all the other crap that makes real life so slow :)
 
I was watching a show about the real CSI..they all complained about how the show was always dark in the lab...the one place you really need to see things :D
also a co-worker's son works for a forensic lab and said they NEVER put evidnece in plastic bags..always paper....he doesn't get to have a gun.They issued him a neat pocket protector though :uhoh:
 
The CSI tv show is a joke. REAL Las Vegas Metro CSI are armed and do carry a Metro badge like every other of the 2,000 sworn officers there.

I met some when they responded to my apt that was burglarized. Nice folks
that were very professional. They carried S&W 9mms like alot of Metro did back then, of course I had my badge and a cocked n locked CZ75 on my hip:)

CZ didn't offer a .45 then, and I was restricted to a Double Action 9mm.
Excellent ergonomics and reliability- combined with high capacity made sense
for the area I worked in.

As for handguns... you would probably find .40s more common to police depts.
CSI MIAMI is a much better show..as is NAVY CSI.
 
None of the above. Because in real life, CSI technicians don't drive Hummers or carry Glocks/Sigs, etc. like they do on TV. It's more like a beat-up minivan with 120,000 miles on it and a Benchmade bought on your own salary because you're not a sworn officer. I know and have met enough of them to know.

But for purposes of this excerise, it would be a small Airweight or possibly a Kahr in an IWB so it doesn't catch on all the equipment and stays out of the way of camera straps, blacklight powercords, etc. etc.
 
If you can't practice and only use the thing to qualify twice a year to keep your job, I'd go with the Smith. Simple, accurate, maybe underpowered, but as a CSI, you'll never shoot it "for real", it's just an anchor.
 
I'd pick the 1911 (what I carry for CCW anyway), buy a few extra mags on my own and try to get approval to carry my personal S&W 642 as a BUG and keep my personal AR in the trunk.
 
BHP 9mm

But your scenario isn't at all realistic. Doesn't matter how short a department is on uniformed patrol officers. CSI personnal are not first responders, they are "crime scene investigators." Your scenario seems to suggest that after the patrol division has turned a crime scene over to CSI that the investigators might have to defend themselves against ... what? The perps coming back and taking them out to clean up the evidence?

Unlikely in the extreme.
 
But your scenario isn't at all realistic. Doesn't matter how short a department is on uniformed patrol officers. CSI personnal are not first responders, they are "crime scene investigators." Your scenario seems to suggest that after the patrol division has turned a crime scene over to CSI that the investigators might have to defend themselves against ... what? The perps coming back and taking them out to clean up the evidence?

Unlikely in the extreme.

The only reason CSI detectives need firearms is for personal defense driving to and from the crime scene. Usually the murders are committed in the worst parts of town, so they don't want to get carjacked in transit. (I'm speaking of large urban areas here. In most other places homicides are generally domestic violence cases, and generally occur in working-class subdivisions).
So I'd go with the revolver (which is what I carry to the scene myself).
Now, I've just been called to a homicide scene, so I have to go.
-David
 
Just got back from the homicide call.
ex-boyfriend tries to car-jack ex-girlfriend (who has 3 kids in her car at the time).
She tries to drive away, he hangs onto the steering wheel...until they collide with an oncoming car.
ex-boyfriend dies on scene.
ex-girlfriend and children are taken to hospital, but appear to be ok.
Justice served right there on the scene. :)
-David

P.S. If you guessed he had abused this woman for years, you were right. ;)
-D
 
I'll take the HK of the listed guns. These guns are a tad large for concealed carry to, especially ofr a smaller person. P7 might not bulge or ruin the drape of the suit I might be wearing as much :D

I think P7 is a good choice for the one gun person.
 
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