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Originally Posted by Neal_G.
To hear LE from the revolver era talk, you would think every badge back then was a cool as a cucumber, deadeye Wild Bill type. I thought LE departments dropped revolvers because of increased officer deaths from criminals who were being armed with semi-autos, machine pistols, assault rifles, etc?
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That's not the way I remember it. I was a badge-carrier during those days and we got carried away with the "latest and greatest" craze. Like all Americans, cops like to try the newest stuff, and when Gaston came out with his plastic pistol and SW came out with the second generation pistols, we all wanted to try them. I carried a revolver on a rural beat and I still consider the ,357 magnum revolver to be a very useable firearm for a rural deputy. My brethren in the big cities like the increased capacity of the semi-autos, but I never felt a need for it. I only went to a high-capacity semi-auto when the Sheriff started issuing them.