I'm not ashamed to admit that from when I was a rookie officer many, many years ago to even now I've always wanted to own a S&W model 36 snubby in stainless or Colt similar with the skinny factory grips. For me, back in the sixties and even the early seventies those were the epitome of what a plainclothes street detective/investigator wore. They were handily concealable and by the standards pretty much adequate to take on a wide assortment of bad guys. Sort of embarrassing that we could be that ignorant back then, but hey, that's the way it was. How did we ever survive?