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smokeman13b: Your friend's gun is a so-called "Victory" model of the .38 Special [possible, but less likely, it could be .38 S&W] Hand Ejector Military & Police, or .38 M&P, which is sometimes referred to as a pre-Model 10 (model numbering wasn't introduced until 1957). I don't have the book with me at the moment to check, but with a 5-digit number the gun was manufactured toward the beginning of the 1942 to 1945 period when these guns were being produced, most likely in 1942.
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