POTD: Turning In My Issued Pistol- It May Have Been My Last
The Glock 17 Gen 5 MOS you see above was my last issued pistol, which I had to give up once I resigned after 15 years with my police department. Of my 21-year career in law enforcement, this was the fourth pistol I was issued, not including my personal Glock 22 I carried on duty for years. Of all the Glocks I’ve carried on duty, this Glock 17 Gen 5 MOS has been my favorite!
As pictured, my issued pistol was equipped with Trijicon Suppressor Height Night Sights, a Holosun 508T Red Dot, a Plus 2 magazine base plate, and my personal Streamlight TLR-1 weapon light. I certainly didn’t feel undergunned with this combination, and I was quite proficient with it. As I gave it a light cleaning on my last day, I wished I could’ve kept it. Time will tell if this was my last issued pistol, but if so, perhaps one day I’ll recreate this setup.
As the department armorer, I also added a little extra feature to the loaded chamber indicator nubs by painting the little ledge bright orange with fingernail polish on everyone’s issued pistols. I also added some white fingernail polish to the roll marks on my own.
For those of you who have been issued a pistol, what was your last one, and what one do you miss the most? If you could spec out your own duty pistol, what gun and accessories would you put together?
Doug has been a firearms enthusiast since age 16 after getting to shoot with a friend. Since then he's taken many others out to the range for their first time. He is a husband, father, grandfather, police officer, outdoorsman, artist and a student of history. Doug has been a TFB reader from the start and is happy to be a contributor of content. Doug can be reached at battleshipgrey61 AT gmail.com, or battleshipgrey61 on Instagram.
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Well, I can tell you my least favorite......Smith and Wesson 2.0. The 1.0 was much better IMHO than the 2.0. And the problems we had with those pistols and the Smith rifles, so unfortunate. I sure hope you aren't completely done with L.E., but doing sniper school with you was great!
We had to provide our own so as long as it was on the departments approved gun list you could carry whatever you wanted. My LE career was fairly short, I carried, in order, a Ruger GP100, S&W 59 and a G21. I had no issues with any of them. It guts me to this day that I sold that S&W, never realizing at the time what sentimental value it would hold as time passed.