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NYPD Will Transition Away From the 12-Pound Trigger Duty Guns They’ve Been Using for a Century

March 6, 2025August 25, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

The New York Police Department, in its infinite wisdom, has issued the boys in blue GLOCK, SIG and other handguns with a 12-pound trigger pull for the last century or so. The “reasoning” for that making the trigger pull so heavy cuts down on negligent discharges. Apparently adequately training the boys in blue never occurred … Read more

After More Than 120 Years, The NYPD is Retiring the Last of its Service Revolvers

June 2, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

New York’s finest first began toting revolvers back in 1895. And while the department began transitioning their officers over to SIGs and GLOCKs decades ago, a few long-timers were determined to #resist, holding onto their wheel guns as long as possible. But with the number of those revolver-packing, aging officers down to about four dozen, … Read more

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