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I was helping my father clean out his gun safe and came across this just Ancient looking holster with a gun in it. It looked like a piece of junk, this wasn't like my father at all! I was like dude what in the hell is this? His eyes got wide he told me DON'T EVER FIRE THAT GUN! It turned out to be My Grandfathers 32 cal he bought in like 1920 something.
I called Colt and it was manufactured in 1905 and is a Colt New Police 32. My father said if you pull the hammer back and use it in single action mode it mostly lines up with the barrel however if you use double action it never lines up. He said it would be dangerous to try to fire.
Colt told me if I wanted to have it redone to work and look like new I would need to find a Good Gunsmith that specializes in that. Or the other option is I can pay Colt $100.00 I could find out every bit of information about the gun from the manufacture to where it was distributed and most likely what department it was distributed to, from there I could possibly find out what officer the gun was issued to. From there I could leave it as is and build a nice wooden case that would hold the gun and paperwork I get on it. I don't know if it is worth anything like that but it is to my father and I cause it was my grandfathers gun.
Please give me any opinions or ideas?
I called Colt and it was manufactured in 1905 and is a Colt New Police 32. My father said if you pull the hammer back and use it in single action mode it mostly lines up with the barrel however if you use double action it never lines up. He said it would be dangerous to try to fire.
Colt told me if I wanted to have it redone to work and look like new I would need to find a Good Gunsmith that specializes in that. Or the other option is I can pay Colt $100.00 I could find out every bit of information about the gun from the manufacture to where it was distributed and most likely what department it was distributed to, from there I could possibly find out what officer the gun was issued to. From there I could leave it as is and build a nice wooden case that would hold the gun and paperwork I get on it. I don't know if it is worth anything like that but it is to my father and I cause it was my grandfathers gun.
Please give me any opinions or ideas?


