Let's see your LE trade-in pistols

[MattB]

Here are mine...two Germans and an American. From top to bottom in my picture:

Top Right: S&W 4006TSW - California Highway Patrol
Center Left: Sig P6 - North Rhine-Westphalia Police (grips on this one are not original, but rather are Ash Wood grips from MarschalGrips in Hungary)
Bottom Right: Walther/Manurhin P4 - West Berlin Police

All fairly unique guns - the CHP 4006s were just for CHP, the P6s were a Sig P225 variant only used by West German Police, and the Manuhrin made P4s only ever saw service in West Berlin as far as I know. These firearms are each a piece of history IMO. What ex-LE pistols do you all have?

[gwanghoops]

S&W 68-2 LAPD 38 special

got it really cheap because some monkey used a vise grossly. great shooter.

[MattB]

Very cool. Is it .38 only or can it run .357 Magnum as well?

[gwanghoops]

Very cool. Is it .38 only or can it run .357 Magnum as well?

38 special only. Strange history where departments didn't want .357 in a service revolver so S&W created the 68.

https://revolverguy.com/missing-link-smith-wesson-model-68/

[robledor]

Very nice pistols

[MattB]

38 special only. Strange history where departments didn't want .357 in a service revolver so S&W created the 68.

https://revolverguy.com/missing-link...sson-model-68/

Interesting. Never knew about the 68 until now.

[Ruber]

Let's see your LE trade-in pistols

Center Left: Sig P6 - North Rhine-Westphalia Police (grips on this one are not original, but rather are Ash Wood grips from MarschalGrips in Hungary

Very cool! Here?€™s my 1953 High Power from the North Rhine-Westphalia Police:


An Italian Police Beretta M1951 from 1961:


And a P225 from Swiss Police with Montage Suisse rollmark, heel release, and Zurich Canton flag on left side from 1985:


I?€™d like to get a P6, I missed the boat when the first hit the market. They are getting too pricey for me anymore.

Nice collection MattB!

[MattB]

[Ruber]

Let's see your LE trade-in pistols

https://highpowercollectors.proboards.com/thread/1107

[boattail]

Here are mine...two Germans and an American. From top to bottom in my picture:

Top Right: S&W 4006TSW - California Highway Patrol
Center Left: Sig P6 - North Rhine-Westphalia Police (grips on this one are not original, but rather are Ash Wood grips from MarschalGrips in Hungary)
Bottom Right: Walther/Manurhin P4 - West Berlin Police

All fairly unique guns - the CHP 4006s were just for CHP, the P6s were a Sig P225 variant only used by West German Police, and the Manuhrin made P4s only ever saw service in West Berlin as far as I know. These firearms are each a piece of history IMO. What ex-LE pistols do you all have?

I have a 4006 TSW and a 659 that was used in Vermont. Both pretty good guns. The 659 has a much better trigger than the 4006 TSW though.

[MattB]

I have a 4006 TSW and a 659 that was used in Vermont. Both pretty good guns. The 659 has a much better trigger than the 4006 TSW though.

[Gryff]

Yeah, I grabbed a P6 when the first batch came in. $340 out the door.

[MattB]

Yeah, I grabbed a P6 when the first batch came in. $340 out the door.

[The Fugitive]

I'd like to get the p6 someday. nice pick up.

[Ruber]

Let's see your LE trade-in pistols

With the talk about the Smiths, I had to get this out. Not a trade in per se, but purchased from a retired LEO locally.

I actually bought this old S&W 59 twice. It was my introduction to DA/SA guns and I was not initially enamored with it and I traded it tor a SP01. Liking that less, I traded it for a MkIII Hi Power. Eventually my friend told me he was going to sell the 59, so I bought it back from him. I wound up replacing all the springs, firing pin, and small parts and it is now a keeper.