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    Lads........., if I may..... A lot of what I'm going to say is recorded in Mark Stamps 'The .30" No2 pistol'. We were TAUGHT the 9mm No2 pistol as apprentices but to see a No2 PISTOL (not a .380 No2 REVOLVER......, see where the confusion starts...?) was a rare occurrence. Even on active service during the mid to late 60's, all the 'ar5e-enders' all had little .38's. Not a lot of ammo I have to agree but we had plenty in the Armourers end of the world. After all, we had to test them didn't we.....! I carried one for years, YC258 (or was it Y6258?) with grips made from the lovely plum tree in my mums garden and once you had one that was good, it stayed good. If you needed to search a bus, you just waved it about.

    We DID have No2 Brownings coming on stream but there were not enough Inglis ones so from 67 or so onwards (Look for BL67AXXXXX serial numbers) we started to buy from Belgiumicon.

    Most of the air dispatchers (from 55 Company - correct me if I'm wrong someone) carried revolvers just in case there was another Bristol Frightener - or were they Bristol Freighters - crash. All of the air crew from the Bristol Belvederes carried revolvers at the time because that's all the RAF had! As for the notion that a wet blanket would stop a .38 bullet. Best not tell the Welch Guardsman in Cyprus that.

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    the USAF used revolvers right up the the early 90s

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