S&W foreign Police import revolver

[Petrol & Powder]

"British" can be a bit fuzzy, depending on the location and era. Actual UK, British colony, British Commonwealth, Former British Commonwealth ???

[Outpost75]

Ulm proof house, 1972, Nitro proof - NICE

It seems that people all over the world recognized the quality of S&W.

I am told by a retired CID Maj. MP who served in Germany during the 1970s that leased office spaces used by the US Army and State Dept. hired contract local security, and that the standard GSA contracting documents in use at the time prohibited armed security guards from carrying automatic pistols, but that they be armed with 4-inch .38 Special revolvers and undergo the same training and qualification required of private security hired by GSA in the USA. THAT is how those Model 12s got to Germany. These guns were carried alot and seldom shot with anything but target wadcutter ammo on a range. The "duty" ammo carried was old school standard velocity 158-grain LRN loaded by Geco.