many..and now very many years ago uncle had a Colt police positive 38 special with YPD stamped on the butt of the frame.Grips were wood and at the base it was full of indentations that indicated the pistol was used to hammer in nails and bang on all types of stuff.I am sure a few perps heads.
Wonder if the PD’s handy man ever shot his foot
Gee, and I used to laugh at those old tv and movie westerns where the sheriff or deputy, or whoever used their revolver to hammer in nails for the ‘wanted’ poster. I though, even as a child; “What the hell!?, No one would do that with a pistol.”
I guess I was wrong. But I bet that anyone who did had it issued, not purchased out of their own money.
We have a friend who is a surgeon,now retired. I was talking to him at a party one night and he related he did his residency in a NC hospital near Camp LeJeune. He said the NC State Troopers would bring in drunk Marines on a regular basis to the ER for medical treatment prior to booking for DUI.
The reason being the drunk Marines sometimes got belligerent and ended up hauled out of the car usually through the window and had attitude corrections administered with the butt of the troopers service revolver.
Our friend said it was really hard to stitch up 24 U shaped cuts in a drunks head.