What Was the Standard Issue FBI Revolver in the 50's?

[Checkman]

And here are a couple more.

 

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And yet even more.

 

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And here are even more. good looking examples, but I would be willing to bet that all of these specimens are from the N.R.A.'s museum.

 

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Bump.

 

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Whoops.

 

[roaddog28]

I wonder when the "FBI" load, the 158 LSWCHP came out.
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I know that in 1986 in the FBI Maimi Shootout the handgun that finally ended the gun fight was a model 13 with 158 LSWCHP +P round by Winchester. This was the revolver most agents were using. But the FBI were slowing going to second generation S&W 659s.
Howard

 

[Onmilo]

I can remember an old photograph from the late 1940s, early 1950s that appeared in one of the gun magazines and showed FBI Agents practicing on an indoor range and they were all armed with Colt Police Positive revolvers.

 

[Checkman]

Onmilo

I can remember an old photograph from the late 1940s, early 1950s that appeared in one of the gun magazines and showed FBI Agents practicing on an indoor range and they were all armed with Colt Police Positive revolvers

At the time I can see where a 4" Police Positive would have been a good choice. The 38 Spl was considered to be an adequate load for law enforcement. The Colt Police Positive was light and easier to carry that either the Colt Official Police or the S&W M&P and it was chambered for the .38 Spl. Something that would have been important to an investigator back then.

 

[Checkman]

Here is the 3" S&W Model 13. Used in the eighties. The last revolver that the F.B.I. authorized. See Silence of the Lambs. One was used by Jodie Foster's character at the climax when she took down the serial killer Buffalo Bill. It can also be seen in the Don Johnson movie Dead Bang being used by an F.B.I. agent.