Colt Commander.

I cut my teeth on a 5906, so I'll go with a Smith 39.

I could be pretty content with the following basic loadout, even today:

SIG P210 (9mm)
Beretta 71 (.22LR)

No doubt I would want to add others from 1968 (PPK, Python, 1911, BHP), but the above two cover a big spectrum -- self-defense, small-game hunting, and assorted target shooting. Both weapons are top-notch for reliability, at a standard ahead of their time.

The same year Steve McQueen’s movie, Bullitt, was released. So of course it’s a Colt Diamondback in an upside down shoulder holster.

I'd have to go with whatever my Mom had near her belly

Combat Commander.
2.5 inch S&W Model 19.

Like most others here, a 45cap 1911 or a 9mm BHP

1968? A Fanner cap gun. Planet of the Apes edition.

A S&W K frame revolver. I still carry one at times in 2020, they still work.

In 1968 my dad, near retirement, was still carrying a 4" M&P circa 1922. His fellow officers were carrying S&W 4" Model 10s. One did have a 4"Python - but that was unusual. They had to purchase their own weapons then.

Jerry

S&W 25 on a wide belt, unless I found something I liked better. It seems to me that bullet development hadn't really begun yet (didn't that really start to explode sometime in the late 80's?) so bigger would still be better.

Probably a water gun, or maybe one of those spring loaded things that shot suction cup tipped darts. I was in the single digits in i968, and not the high single digits.

What most people carried. A snub 38 and a 357 at home. 9mm ammo wasn’t that great and 1911s weren’t very reliable especially with hollow points.

Colt Python in .357.
1911 Lightweight Commander.
Pocket - Colt Detective Special.

Probably a Model 10 snub with whatever spicy hollowpoints were available for a .38 then, and a Baby Browning .25 as a backup. Maybe a 1911 with ball ammo as an alternative in the fall and winter months.

Walther P38 or HK4 as dictated by clothing needs.

Smith & Wesson Model 19

Spring/Summer time a S&W Model 36

Fall/Winter time a S&W Model 19 (probably 2.5")

BHP.

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Smith & Wesson Model 19

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