Why are they still doing this

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Thumbcocker

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fiver said:
round here they spend their money on new SUV's and Trucks for the city cops and sheriffs to drive.
ammo,,, sure...
our old police chief was kind of a buddy of mine and when he found out i could put down ammo at a good rate for a good price he was constantly trying to get me to work out a contract to supply them with practice ammo just so his guys could actually practice.
he even showed me a room in their offices where i could setup my stuff ''and be on staff' as he put it.
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Back in the 90's it wasn't uncommon to see straight line or turret presses along with mold gathering dust in the armory of many police departments. Most were set up in .38 special. One I saw was .45 acp but that departments duty gun was the Colt Commander.
 
fiver

fiver

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yep.
i was watching serpico yesterday and the one scene was him at the range.
he put all his brass in a coffee can painted red and turned the brass in with his target.

i got a chuckle out of that thinking about the new york PD reloading now days .
 
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Dusty Bannister

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The agency I was with in the late 60's and into the 70's did their own bullet casting and reloading. It was on a Star progressive in the basement of the police station. The range master had also made up some noise loads to scare the starlings out of the trees around the city building. Tested a couple of them on the basement range. The Municipal Judge was holding court and was not happy about that. They even had a "trusty" that was allowed to help with the reloading. That stopped after they broke a few guns. Ah yes, those were the days.
 
Intel6

Intel6

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In the late 80's I worked for an ammunition remanufacturer that loaded all the practice .38 SPL rounds for the Los Angeles PD. We were located in central CA and loaded 700,000 rounds a month for them. These were "lead free" loads as they were loaded with a plated bullet, and we used Fiocchi lead free primers and W231 powder. We packaged them in 30 rd bags and brought back the fired cases in the smaller galvanized trash cans. Towards the end of my time there LAPD was transitioning to the Beretta 9mm so we started loading them the same "lead free" round in 9mm.

Best part of that job was getting to shoot up all the "blems" for free. I was shooting 600-800 rounds a week in my revolver and ended up buying a newfangled (back then) Glock 17 just so I could start shooting up the 9mm.
 
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