Vintage Gun Photos

[Grayfox54]

They're all shooting 2" snubbies. Look to be Colt Detective Specials. I'd think regular officers would be issued 4" revolvers. 

[E4 No More]

11 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

Female trainees of the Los Angeles Police Department practice firing their newly issued revolvers on March 6, 1948

Didn't know female cops were a thing in 1948, always thought it came much later. Wondering if this photo was mislabeled and it is something else.

 

I think it's a staged PR photo. No way that they would be that close together if they were firing at targets - which the brass on the table suggests. If it's LA then why are at least four of them in long coats?

[quedz]

LAPD had the Nation's First Police woman

"In 1909, Los Angeles social worker Alice Stebbins Wells petitioned Mayor George Alexander and the City Council, requesting that an ordinance providing for a Los Angeles Policewoman be adopted. Not only was the measure passed, but on September 12, 1910, Mrs. Wells was appointed as the nation's first female policewoman with arrest powers."

[quedz]

4 hours ago, E4 No More said:

If it's LA then why are at least four of them in long coats?

The average low for March 6th is 51...

[E4 No More]

16 minutes ago, hughd said:

The average low for March 6th is 51...

I lived in the area for a few years in the Marine Corps. Never did I see long coats on anyone in Southern California.

[Jeb48]

[Snaveba]

9 hours ago, E4 No More said:

I lived in the area for a few years in the Marine Corps. Never did I see long coats on anyone in Southern California.

Does anyone even own a coat in So-Cal?

[E4 No More]

9 hours ago, Snaveba said:

Does anyone even own a coat in So-Cal?

In the low country all I ever saw were jackets, and that was pretty rare. Obviously, In the high desert and mountains it was different.

[Jeb48]

Caption anyone?

 

[Jeb48]

[Jeb48]

[Snaveba]

Just now, Jeb48 said:

“Fire up the stove honey, it’s squirrel cookin’time”

[Snaveba]

5 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:

Not having any grass on hand for a skirt, grandpa thought squirrels would be a good substitute before the Luau

Edited March 14, 2020 by Snaveba

[Jeb48]

Tanks of all sizes

 

[Snaveba]

11 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:

Tanks of all sizes

 

Then Goldilocks got in the little tank, and if fit just right. 

[Jeb48]

[Grayfox54]

Yeah, but will it keep beer cold? 

[Jeb48]

Bullet Proof Vest Testing, 1923

[DWARREN123]

Sometimes I wonder how some folks survived!

 

[RED333]

57 minutes ago, DWARREN123 said:

Sometimes I wonder how some folks survived!

 

Darwin was asleep

[AuEagle]

15 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

Bullet Proof Vest Testing, 1923

That's Trust....or Insanity.

[DaveTN]

By 1980 they just shot themselves, and then took orders for a lot of vests.

[E4 No More]

32 minutes ago, DaveTN said:

By 1980 they just shot themselves, and then took orders for a lot of vests.

Yep, Richard Davis made quite a lot of money travelling the world and shooting himself with a .44 Magnum to demonstrate his Second Chance vests.

[Jeb48]

Baby is teething

[Snaveba]

51 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:

Baby is teething

I couldn’t go where I was planning with this.