The Official Police revolver became a big hit with many police agencies and was adopted by the FBI. In 1927 Colt renamed the New Army & Navy the Official Police revolver in an attempt to boost law enforcement sales. Barrel lengths were four, five and six-inch in either blued or a nickel finish. Changes included a rounded checkered cylinder latch, a wider rear sight groove, a matted top strap and a checkered trigger. That same year Colt also introduced the New Army revolver, a bigger and heavier redesign of the New Army & Navy. 38 Smith & Wesson Special with a different head stamp. 38 Colt Special, which was nothing more than the. In 1908 Colt began making their Police Positive revolver chambered in the. With their main competition now making a better and more powerful gun, Colt was forced to play catch up. 38 Special provided much better performance than the. When Smith & Wesson brought out their Military & Police revolver ten years later their. The genesis for the Colt double action revolver began with the Colt 1889 or the New Army & Navy chambered in. The Model 10 manufactured by Smith & Wesson today is nearly the same gun that was being produced one hundred years ago. The grips were originally made of wood, but the current Model 10 can be ordered with rubber grips as well. Some departments (like the New York State Department of Corrections) still use Model 10s as their primary duty weapon. Both versions were commonly used by police departments well into the 1990s with little modifications. The barrels on the Model 10 from inception were tapered with a large rounded fixed front sight and a groove for the rear until 1961 when a heavy barrel was added to the line with a ramped front sight. 38 S&W (.38-200) and came in four, five and six-inch barrel lengths. 38 Special while the British version, known as the K-200 2, was chambered in. The American Victory had a four-inch barrel and was chambered in. During World War II Smith & Wesson began making the Victory Model M&P with a parkerized finish and a lanyard swivel. The Military & Police (Smith & Wesson didn’t begin calling the M&P the Model 10 until 1958 when they began numbering their model) weighs in at 30 ounces with a four-inch barrel. The sights offered were still the fixed blade and groove rear. Barrel lengths were four, five and six-inches to start, and a two-inch barrel was added in 1933. There were some other minor changes over the years, but the 1905 M&P was the gun that made its way into the holsters of a great number of police officers. The Third Model has the reciprocating cylinder stop and a coil spring and plunger which differed from the leaf spring of the earlier models.
In another three years Smith & Wesson came up with the Military & Police Model 1905 which was to become the predecessor of the M&P revolvers available today. Three years later Smith & Wesson brought out the Second Model Hand Ejector, more commonly known as the Model 1902 Military & Police Second Model which now had the barrel under lug and used two pins inserted in the hammer sides to prevent them from rubbing on the inside of the action. 38 Long Colt and had a set of fixed sights. 38 Special, the First Model also came in. The First Model was lacking a barrel under lug that was to be a facet on later models that held the front locking lug in place. 38 Special 1, which was destined to become the standard cartridge against which all other police rounds were measured. With the introduction of this gun Smith & Wesson also gave the world the. The Smith & Wesson Model 10 started life as the Military and Police Revolver of 1899, and was also known as the Hand Ejector First Model. 38 Special revolvers that came from the two biggest gun makers of the day, the Smith & Wesson Model 10, and the Colt Official Police. Revisiting the Smith & Wesson Model 10 and the Colt Official Policeįor the past two decades police departments across the country have been relying on nothing but semi-automatic pistols made by Glock, Smith & Wesson, Sturm Ruger and Beretta, but for well over seventy years law enforcement officers carried. 1 Revisiting the Smith & Wesson Model 10 and the Colt Official Police.
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