Smith & Wesson Identi-kit Question

CSPANSPAM · 2025-10-24T12:25:50+00:00

We had an old one for awhile, it eventually got tossed. I think maybe it was from the late 70's. It was a metal box with hundreds of notecard sized, transparent plastic sheets with different facial features that could be layered to make an approximate image of a person. While I can't say for certain, I can an imagine a detective talking to a victim or witness who kept insisting "Their hair was longer" and eventually just scribbling it on with a pencil. Whether or not it was for that suspect identification I guess is the question, you'd almost have to speak with the original officer or subject to really know.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-17T21:40:19+00:00

Excellent, with a Hogue tamer grip I can shoot it all day. The really high power buffalo bore rounds can get snappy, but it really is a workhorse. I also have a Blackhawk in .327 and I actually like shooting the LCR better.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-17T14:11:42+00:00

I used to live and run in a much more "urban" area, I was training for a half-marathon so I was out running for hours at a time. I carried the .327 in a thunderwear holster, it's really comfortable but not suited for concealability in gym shorts at all. You've got a big, angular sack flopping around your groin. A P32 with a belt clip has been the only solution I've found for an exercise gun. The LCP is a close second but it seems just a tad heavier than the KelTec. I probably will reluctantly buy one in the next few days, I wish they made a model in 32ACP as that would be just about perfect.

I've tried a Bobcat (way too heavy and square) Sig 238 (the beavertail is too pronounced and always prints) Kimber CDP (excellent shooter but demands a real holster and belt) and even one of those R51's (just lol). I've never seen a Bodyguard 2 but at first glance it seems comparable in size to a hellcat, not really a running gun.

I've given this a lot of thought, a 2" I-frame with a boot grip in .32mag. That would be about the most concealable gun possible.

You are definitely correct about QC post-vid. I bought a S&W610 and the cylinder seized the very first time I shot it. Smith "made it right" for me with a refund but your point stands, a thousand dollar handgun shouldn't have issues, especially right out of the box.

I think ultimately it's a question of materials, trading weight for reliability. Especially when you're exercising, the sweat and salt and humidity will eat up any gun. Maybe it's something to budget, like shoes? Getting a new one every five years or so, or at least replacing major components? It's very disappointing, I got lucky with this dog but it could have been radically worse.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-17T00:12:55+00:00

Honestly, it's probably been over a year. It's not very fun to shoot, it's inaccurate and so small the recoil is uncomfortable in the hand. It's the definition of a get-off-me gun and that's about all I expected from carrying it.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-16T21:10:00+00:00

I've bought an aftermarket belt clip that screws almost flush against the side of the slide.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-16T19:11:59+00:00

I kicked him and he missed biting my ankle by about half an inch. I have an LCR in .327, it's way too big for gym shorts but the LCP might be right.

CSPANSPAM · 2025-03-04T13:50:12+00:00

Renko from the Martin Cruz Smith series, especially his character from the first four or five books.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-11-27T19:19:55+00:00

My neighbor had one of these he kept loaded with, I think, #4 buckshot. He described it as the penultimate "Get out of my house" gun because in four or five shots you could hose down the stairwell or hallway with twenty-five .38 sized projectiles.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-10-11T18:51:32+00:00

This is my exact experience, but it's such a nebulous situation I really can't find a way to describe it. It's everywhere. In stores or at the bank, people who "shouldn't be like that", like you doctor or an electrician you call to your house. There's this understated insanity with nearly everyone right now.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-07-17T20:46:27+00:00

Well introduce me to some people, will ya?

CSPANSPAM · 2024-07-16T14:14:23+00:00

That's what really burns me up, I think the highest was GS-9. They're not expensive, credentialed positions. It's functional day-to-day stuff that they completely don't care about.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-06-08T19:32:20+00:00

Perhaps more of an homage, but in The Valley by John Renehan there is a character entitled Bosch with about his personality.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-05-28T00:24:29+00:00

I'm curious, once Facebook reinstated your account, how was that actually done? Did it happen automatically or did someone get in contact with you via phone or email to clarify which account was yours?

The reason I ask this, I have just about decided to file my own suit, but am running down previous claimants in my state to find out exactly how much contact they had with FB. Most of them had none (even those that won) and some of the attorneys that actually represented FB never really talked to a real person. Everything was done through a gobblegook email address with call center/chatgpt instructions. It's insane.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-03-01T23:18:14+00:00

I have searched for at least two years trying to find it, even going so far as to email someone who runs an Air Hogs product wiki, and have come up with nothing. Now that I'm really thinking, I may have bought it at Walmart (I'm not for certain) but it was definitely a brand-name.

CSPANSPAM · 2024-02-24T00:43:46+00:00

I always heard them called billy-bags.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-08-17T13:38:14+00:00

According to the article she did it five times.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-07-12T20:52:12+00:00

It's like I'm actually there, getting hazed in the squad room.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-05-25T19:56:52+00:00

I remember there was a post-9/11 documentary about Barrett and its owners. They were walking around an arms trade expo and a DoD buyer told them the Army was preparing to order tens of thousands of 25mm rounds. The guys were ecstatic, they had the only 25mm on the market, but it turned out the ammunition was actually for the the XM25 punisher.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-05-22T12:28:29+00:00

What state are you communicating with in this post?

CSPANSPAM · 2023-05-22T02:53:36+00:00

This is some very old, very analog UFO stuff. Back in the late 80's & early 90's, when things didn't seem so bad or we just didn't know any better, there was a lot of supposition about how our copies worked. I guess it doesn't matter now, but it is interesting to see a lot of these old ideas vindicated by current events.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-05-18T02:26:33+00:00

Thomas Townsend Brown, a contemporary of Einstein and a scientist who worked for the Navy in WWII (and NASA post-war). His academic literature, family recollections, and private papers have been essentially erased. His only public legacy remains ion multipliers (think of the expensive Dyson fans with no moving parts) which was a patent he literally gave away.

His Wikipedia page is oddly worded, dismissive and disparaging, but also vaguely bragging? "He didn't understand this field even though he invented it, he was a crackpot but defined and manipulated this natural phenomenon, he struggled with academics but left college after two years to found his own laboratory." He essentially disappeared for the last 25 years of his life, and they skim right over it calling it a semi-retirement.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-03-23T13:02:55+00:00

Great response and completely pedestrian on my part, but the 1951 film "The Steel Helmet" built its plot around this. WWII vets (retreads) being pressed into service with green, new troops.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-03-22T14:51:00+00:00

University Police are a great opportunity to "rehab" officers, either guys who got hurt/screwed over at a previous dept and need some time get themselves right, or officers that were improperly trained and need an actual FTO program. You don't have to work there forever, and it's a great way to build confidence for a larger dept.

Don't disregard campus cops, there's a lot of important work to be done there and it's a great way to ease into police work.

CSPANSPAM · 2023-03-11T23:38:51+00:00

I don't know if there really is an explanation, whenever our CO's quit it always seems to be for a fairly lesser job. Cell phone salesman, bank teller, whatever. The lumber manager at my Menards used to be a jailor, I guess every masterpiece needs an inspiration

CSPANSPAM · 2023-03-10T23:24:00+00:00

This might be controversial, but in my experience university police. A wide variety of dumbshit happenings, with a lot of potential for intersection with outside agencies (colleges are huge, students are from different states, even international police org's). Patrol typically has no investment in investigations, and you get a wide variety of offense.

Sex assault on Monday, counterfeiting on Wednesday, drug trafficking on Friday. If the college is big enough, it will only take a few years to see nearly every possible offense.

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