Last of Australia police upgrade to semi-auto pistols

Posted October 18, 2010 in Pistols by Steve Johnson with 23 Comments
Tags: australia, handguns, pistol, police, revolver, S&W

When I was in Australia some years ago I was surprised by the number of revolvers I saw. SMH.com.au reports that the Victoria police, the last to carry revolvers, have upgraded from .38 Special S&W Model 10 to the semi-automatic S&W M&P pistol in .40 S&W …

It is the first change of guns in Victoria in 34 years, involving a switch from six-shot revolvers to semi-automatic pistols with magazines of 15 rounds.

[ Many thanks to Nick for emailing me the link. ]

Steve Johnson

I founded TFB in 2007 and over 10 years worked tirelessly, with the help of my team, to build it up into the largest gun blog online. I retired as Editor in Chief in 2017. During my decade at TFB I was fortunate to work with the most amazing talented writers and genuinely good people!