Met Up with an Old Friend...

[Stephen A. Camp]

...from the 1980's and my early years in the tactical unit!


This lightly personalized Mk II was the first Hi Power I was "officially authorized" to carry for both regular duty and tactical call-outs when the police department I worked for allowed autoloaders. (Prior to that, I had sometimes carried a Hi Power under my uniform jacket but that was not much in Texas weather.)

I wound up selling this Mk II and others (mistake) when the Mk III made its debute. Recently I got an opportunity to revisit and photograph this old thing for a project I'm involved in and thought I'd share a picture or two and a tiny bit of this pistol's "history".

This one has not kept good company. It "visited" with two armed robbers, one bank robber and more meth and crack dealers than I can honestly remember, but it never had a "conversation" with any of them; it never needed to; they complied with police orders and never threatened me.

If interested, a little more about the gun can be had here:

http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/L...%20Mk%20II.htm

Best.

[jhs27275]

Thanks for sharing.

I have an old S&W 59 like that, but it did talk to a BG back in the early 80's. I know the guy who carries it now and I visit it every now and then.

On a side note I spend a lot of time on your site reading, thanks for sharing that too.

[Stephen A. Camp]

Hello and thanks very much.

Best to you and yours.

[djv38]

Nice looking gun