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Originally Posted by Nyles
Awesome wheelguns! I've always been jealous of your Heavy Duty, and now your British OP. Mine is pretty severely messed with. How's finding .38 S&W in the States these days? It's getting rough up here.
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That British OP was dumb luck. As you know I'm a police officer. Several years ago our Street Crimes Unit stopped a guy on Federal probation. That OP was in his car and criminals on probation and parole can't have guns. Weird. Anyway I got to look at it the very next day and I knew I had to have it. However the case was Federal and the Feds typically destroy guns after a case is adjudicated. I was sad. However for reasons that I wasn't made privy too time the Colt stayed with us. However it then sat in the evidence vault over at the county courthouse for several years. Finally early this year county cleaned out the vault and sent all the items no longer needed back to their various governmental organizations that they came from. About once a year my department sells firearms that are no longer needed for cases (and have no owners) to a gun dealer who in turn will sell pieces to officers. It's all legal by the way and a good source of income for my department. Plus the guns are sold by Federally licensed dealers instead of a police department. I tried to find the original owner. I had the ATF do a handsearch through records and I even called Colt and told them what I was doing. Colt told me it was shipped to the British Purchasing Commission in New York City in July 1941. There is no record of it after that. No importer stamp on it. The British OP's are very hard to find down here. 38 S&W is around, but it isn't real common. I'm going to order snapcaps for it (directly from the company since I'll never find 38 S&W snapcaps in the local stores) and I'll probably order a box or two through one of my local gunshops - or maybe Cabelas in Boise.