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My Dept has a fully working Thompson in our armory that no one acknowledges exists. Ask any range masters and they pretend to not know what youre talking about.

[esy]

I don't keep any of my firearms in my locker with the exception of my issued less lethal shotgun. I'll keep my rifle there over the work week, but there are many times I take it back and forth to my house with me (i.e. during our extended shifts for the riot control, etc.).

[GizmoSD]

[CBR_rider]

My Dept has a fully working Thompson in our armory that no one acknowledges exists. Ask any range masters and they pretend to not know what youre talking about.

I know of an agency that destroyed their MP5’s some years back rather than sell them when they transitioned to the AR platform for SWAT. The box of cut receivers was a sad sight to see.

Our SWAT Originally had a Thompson assigned to it. The officer with the Thompson’s job when covering a house was to spray the house with with bullets if they started taking fire. Pretty crazy stuff 40-50 years ago.

[edgerly779]

We had a BAR 1919 a long time ago. Pristine with 20 mags in pouches. It was for suppressive fire against hard target engagements. I wanted a MA deuce but calmer heads prevailed. We retired it and got a couple 60's and some M14s . Lots of M4's some MP 4's. Some suppressed. Old days were fun.

[RCxRC]

When off-duty, the Glock 17 Gen 5 I purchased last year at Pro-Force and now carry regularly when at work, as well as a S&W 642.

Hanging in the back of the locker, the old Sig P226 Nitron-finished, solid stainless slide, U.S. mfg'd pistol (and full belt rig with proper holster and mag pouch) I bought at B&B and carried for 15 years before finally getting tired of having my lunch handed to me on the draw by rookies with the department's newly issued Glocks. This especially when they changed the qualification course from the LASO draw once and shoot 30 rounds with one mag change, but no re-holster. Instead they switched the standard course of fire to drawing and re-holstering every few rounds, and it penalized those of us with the "old" double-action semi-auto's who had to shoot that first round of each set of rounds double-action. Saw my scores drop too. Funny thing, the real "old timers" with their old slicked-up revolvers still out-shot everyone (until they were made to switch over to the Glocks about 10 years ago, those few that still had them). I justify keeping it in my locker in the off chance I've taken the Glock home for the weekend and forgot to grab it on my way back into work (aka my spare). I also have another "shooter grade" beat up '80's vintage stamped-slide, German date-coded P226 in the Locker Down (similar to GunVault / Console Vault) safe as my truck gun with extra mags.

Also in the back of the locker, the old Beretta 92FS I was originally issued in the mid-90's, used through the academy and carried for 10 years before replacing with the personally purchased P226 mentioned above because I was tired of having to shoot 3-400 rds in the week or two leading up to quarterly qual's in order to get my muscle memory back to where I could reliably shoot Expert or Distinguished Expert at qual time. Realilzed I only had to shoot a box or two through the Sig P226 to do the same, and pulled the Sig "safe queen" out for duty use. Figured the money saved in personally purchased practice ammo paid for the Sig outright.

When on-duty, my Seecamp .380 is in my locker, and my S&W 642 is in my pocket. Seecamp is a ferocious little bugger that will tear up your trigger finger with trigger guard slap on recoil, but the smallest thing around that will disappear into a pocket. Have to wear band-aids on the 1st joint of the trigger finger if shooting more than a mag or two.
Good only out to about 5-7 yds, as it has no sights. The gun to carry when you're not carrying a gun. Shoot one way and run the other....

Everything else I had kept in there went home with me after my divorce. At least the stuff I still had after my "fire / divorce sale". Hey, freedom isn't free, right...?!

As far as the department, a few P7's that somehow made it on to a "dignitary special detail", purchased for them back in the 80's or 90's. Don't know how that happened. The M1 Benelli's that were here for a few years were traded off for 870's after a new Chief came in. MP'5's were traded to Allstate Police Eqpt (Pomona) for more Glock pistols after same Chief came in.