Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. SPEAKOUT too. I’ll have to change that, change my work number too while I’m at it. I’ve already moved and haven’t given him my new address so I’ll have it pretty well covered then. So ha! No raise for you, Connor! You have to find me first. Double Ha! Editor Huh? What? roject2 I normally would never try to sway someone any direction when it comes to choosing a firearm for self-defense, but I read the letter by John Lawrence (Speak Out, May/June 2009) where he says worrying about one’s hearing is not important when a life is at stake. I probably would agree except I’m one who has serious hearing loss due to the blast of a .357 magnum. When I was in my early 20s, I saw a crow feasting on the corn I had just planted in a nearby field. I grabbed my Blackhawk, crept up to a barn near the crow, aimed and fired. I dropped the revolver and fell to the ground because the blast from the revolver was so loud it perforated my left eardrum. I would liken it to getting an ice-pick rammed into your ear canal. With one shot, I was incapacitated by the blast — to say the least. 4/23/08 4:03 PM Page 1 Had I been defending my life I don’t believe I could have recovered in time to make another shot. I couldn’t even stand up due to the vertigo. I’m sure the blast bouncing off of the tin on the barn was the reason it messed up just one ear (the other ear was unharmed), but I can only imagine what would happen if you fired a .357 magnum inside your house. Because of my stupidity I now have incessant ringing in my left ear I will have to live with from now on. I keep a S&W model 65 at my bedside, but it’s loaded with standard .38 semi-wadcutters. I don’t want to drop my gun if I’m forced to defend my household. Chris P. Via e-mail than 10 to 20 officers. This leaves me to wonder why a city would purchase 100 and number them accordingly. I would think these guns were purchased for a much larger department. I have attached a photo of the department from 1923 and you can see even then, it was a small agency. David W. Moore Lorain Police Department David_Moore@CityofLorain.org Via e-mail Mystery Gun I retired from the Lorain Police Department in 1991 and came back to do some IT work for them. I was given your article (“1908 .380 Mystery Pistol,” May/June, 2009) by a friend of the author’s. Although I can’t prove or disprove the claim the gun came from the Lorain Police Department, I believe it probably did not. The main reason is the number itself “LPD 77” on the gun. At the time this weapon would have been purchased, around 1912, the department had probably no more I read Roy Huntington’s article (Insider, March/April 2009) issue and found his thoughts of interest. We agree for the most part in that President Obama will be way too busy with economic and international problems to spend much time tying to restrict our right to own firearms. He did say President Obama Calm Down 14 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2009