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The S&W Model 10 revolver was a popular weapon before the semi-automatic pistol replaced the revolver in many police departments, as well as police units and armies. Certain units of Ireland's Gardaí (Irish Police) had replaced the Model 10 with the SIG Sauer P226 and Walther P99 C semi-automatic pistols.
Smith & Wesson M&P in .38 Special produced in 1899 A .38 Special Jacketed Soft Point round Air Force issue Smith & Wesson Model 15-4 in .38 Special In 1930, Smith & Wesson introduced a large-frame 38 Special revolver with a 5-inch barrel and fixed sights intended for police use, the Smith & Wesson 38/44 Heavy Duty .
The .38 S&W, also commonly known as .38 S&W Short (referred to as such to differentiate it from .38 Long Colt and .38 Special), 9×20mmR, .38 Colt NP (New Police), or .38/200, is a revolver cartridge developed by Smith & Wesson in 1877. Versions of the cartridge were the standard revolver cartridges of the British military from 1922 to 1963, in ...
In comparison, conventional .38 Special ammunition fires a 158-grain (10.2 g) bullets at 755 feet (230 m) per second. [1] It was easily capable of penetrating the automobile bodies and body armor of that era. A 4-inch (10 cm) barrel was offered in 1935 for users willing to accept the reduced ballistic performance of a more compact firearm. [2]
Smith & Wesson Model 60: Smith & Wesson.38 Special.357 Magnum: 5 United States: 1965–present Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless: Smith & Wesson.38 S&W.32 S&W: 5 United States: 1887-1940 Smith & Wesson Triple Lock: Smith & Wesson.44 Special.455 Webley: 6 United States: 1908-1915 Starr revolver: Starr Arms Company: Ball, percussion cap #11 6 ...
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...
Clyde A. Tolson, special assistant to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, owned a Model 38 Airweight, serial number 512236, with his name engraved on the side. [8]Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, South Vietnam's chief of National Police, was photographed using a Model 49 Bodyguard to execute a Viet Cong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, during the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Later models in this series include the .38 Military & Police Victory Model [2] and the S&W Model 10. [3] The Model 1905, as with the other .38 Hand Ejector models, is a six-shot revolver built on the Smith and Wesson K frame, with a swing-out cylinder chambered in .38 Special. [4]