I’m not exactly sure how to describe this *NYT* story; I would use the phrase “human interest”, but it’s actually about a revolver. Specifically, a vintage S&W .32 Hand Ejector that fell out of a perp’s waistband, went off, and hit a cop.
The revolver was traced to the Smith & Wesson plant in Springfield, Mass., according to law enforcement sources.
Oh, boy. That’s some fine police work there, tracing a Smith and Wesson revolver back to the Smith and Wesson plant.
But, when a .32-caliber revolver is fired, it keeps the casings inside its rotating chamber instead of spitting them out like a semiautomatic pistol, making it hard for forensic investigators to determine whether it had a criminal past.
Say what?
Like other guns seized by the police, it will be melted down and reincarnated as wire clothes hangers.
(insert cheap Mommie Dearest joke here)
(Above by way of the S&WCA mailing list.)
In other news, the legendary Reverend Ike has died.