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Those Safety Police revolvers were pretty good guns and should have had a good future had not the company gone belly up. The whole story seems obscure, but I think one aspect has not been mentioned. In 1915, they contracted with Belgium, then largely occupied by the German army, to manufacture $3 million worth of Model 1889 rifles.* Those rifles are scarce today, and there are various explanations. A few years ago, there was a report that Dutch divers found a sunken ship filled with rifles, and brought some to the surface, where they were found to be H&A-made Model 1889's.
*My theory, FWIW, is that H&A actually completed at least a large part of that order, and shipped the guns, but that the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Dutch coast. The Beligians would not pay, since they never received the rifles, and no insurance company would insure a shipment of arms going to a war zone. H&A was out of luck and out of business.
Jim
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