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<blockquote data-quote="Buzzdraw" data-source="post: 1751727" data-attributes="member: 385"><p>And if it's a real LE "city" gun, straight from a departmental trade-in deal, Bubba almost certainly hasn't been into it. Most bigger LE agencies are less than pleased (and take action) when someone, other than the departmental armorer, gets into one of their guns. </p><p></p><p>LE agencies don't wait until their guns are potential officer death traps to trade them in on something new. The used LE guns will usually have weakish night sights and moderate exterior wear. Some will have been fired for qualification only, so many have as few as maybe 250-1,000 rounds through them. Those are only broken in. Others will belong to officers who practiced a good bit, thus will have some mechanical wear and the gun will be in need of work to return to first class condition. I've yet to consider refinishing a used LE gun; I consider the exterior wear a sign of honest use.</p><p></p><p>The hand-me-down guns (i.e. one agency to another) will usually be more worn. The range-use/academy guns may have a lot of rounds through them.</p><p></p><p>I too have had good luck with more than one used LE guns, both revolver's and semi's, as far as being a functional tool. I've seen one used LE gun, a S&W Model 15 revolver, where some Officer Bubba had tried to fix a loose extractor rod. Bubba can do bad things to the frame recoil shield, with a cabinet screw driver, when he's trying to open a revolver with a loosened unscrewed extractor rod. Bet he's still writing reports about the mess he made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buzzdraw, post: 1751727, member: 385"] And if it's a real LE "city" gun, straight from a departmental trade-in deal, Bubba almost certainly hasn't been into it. Most bigger LE agencies are less than pleased (and take action) when someone, other than the departmental armorer, gets into one of their guns. LE agencies don't wait until their guns are potential officer death traps to trade them in on something new. The used LE guns will usually have weakish night sights and moderate exterior wear. Some will have been fired for qualification only, so many have as few as maybe 250-1,000 rounds through them. Those are only broken in. Others will belong to officers who practiced a good bit, thus will have some mechanical wear and the gun will be in need of work to return to first class condition. I've yet to consider refinishing a used LE gun; I consider the exterior wear a sign of honest use. The hand-me-down guns (i.e. one agency to another) will usually be more worn. The range-use/academy guns may have a lot of rounds through them. I too have had good luck with more than one used LE guns, both revolver's and semi's, as far as being a functional tool. I've seen one used LE gun, a S&W Model 15 revolver, where some Officer Bubba had tried to fix a loose extractor rod. Bubba can do bad things to the frame recoil shield, with a cabinet screw driver, when he's trying to open a revolver with a loosened unscrewed extractor rod. Bet he's still writing reports about the mess he made. [/QUOTE]
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