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Patrol: HK USP .45. I’d still carry it today if I could. Detective/plainclothes: Glock 23 The G23 led me to buying a Glock 19  Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Smith & Wesson 4563TSW. ----------------------------- Always carry. Never tell. | |||
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There was nothing wrong with my originally issued S&W Model 10, so arguably it was the best. My most modern issued gun was a .40 S&W M&P 1.0. Name wise I went full circle. | |||
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My Model 10 K frame square butt heavy barrel 4 inch. Never felt outgunned with it and still have it. | |||
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Updated/modified GI 1911A1 | |||
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My favorite was a personally owned Colt Combat Elite. The best issued was a Sig P229r, 2 tone with the SRT and night sights. They replaced 25 year old Beretta 96's. The agency I am with now just issued Glock 45's and ceased allowing us to carry personally owned guns. The 45 shoots nice and fits me well, but it's no Sig or Colt Yeah, I used to have a couple of guns. | |||
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HK USP 45...tank of a pistol. I loved having it on my hip. | |||
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Hands down- the triple serial # P220 I carried for nearly 25 years of my career. Hated to see it retired. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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SIg P226 | |||
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My current duty pistol is the best I have had during my career: Glock 17 Gen 5 with Streamlight weapon light. | |||
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The SIG 226 9mm was probably the best issue pistol I was ever issued. I do wish it had la light rail like my .40 226R did. | |||
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Glock 17 GEN2. Issued in 1994. Now G17 Gen5. By far the most accurate Glock. | |||
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A bit off topic, but I know what happens when you holster a P7M8 in a holster designed for a P7 PSP. The magazine shoots out about 10 feet behind you and your friends point and laugh! You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred! - Henry Cabot Henhouse III, aka "SuperChicken" | |||
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The P226 in 9mm I was issued in '88. Chuck Life's tough...tougher if you're stupid (AKA "cwr" on SIGforum [email account issues]) | |||
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I was always happy with and had a lot of faith in my last issued P229's in .357 sig. Liked the cartridge as well as the 229 platform. But I must add, over the thirty two yrs I did on the job, the several times I got called out for dangerous situations that TRULY had the possibility of a deadly encounter, for the two I could....I carried my 1911 in .45 acp. But that was before the 229 days. | |||
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I had three best duty pistols ever issued: 1. Sig P225 9mm 2. Sig P228 9mm 3. Sig P229 357 Sig Honorable mention from the 1960's and 1970's Smith and Wesson Model 19 357 Magnum | |||
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Only gun I was issued was a Gen3 G22 which I carried from 98-01. Everywhere else I worked it was personally owned. | |||
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What else but the Glock 19? A generation 5 model in my case. If I was allowed to carry a personally owned Glock 17 gen5 just for serving warrants and things of a “tactical” nature I would because I do prefer a full sized grip. However, that is a pretty small portion of my work and the Glock 19 really is a perfect pistol for a plain clothes investigator, even one that occasionally does some tactical stuff. Honorable mention goes to a uniformed part time police gig that I had before I went fed. We weren’t issued guns and could carry anything we wanted and I carried my Wilson CQB light rail gun. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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I started in 1970 quit in 1988. Started with a S&W model 10. Best gun a S&W 681. I never carried a semi auto before I quit.  | |||
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Never cared for the one size fits all mentality of an issued gun. But currently I am issued a G30S, which is crazy accurate and easy to carry in my current assignment. Oddly enough, my first Glock was a 30 and I loved that one, hated to part with it when the department I was with would not Let us carry Glocks.....but bought them in 10 years anyway. | |||
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