Not your run-of-the-mill police trade-ins

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SVI/Infinity 2011-style (double-stack) pistols holding 18+1 rounds of .40 S&W. Getting one of these new from Infinity today would run you somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,500 -- or perhaps more, since the mags are very pricey, and these come with four apiece. These guns come with the bull-barrel setup, which I love. Very curious as to which city's SWAT teams were equipped with them.

I can't speak from experience regarding SVI/Infinity pistols from the '90s, but today's SVI/Infinity pistols are a definite level up in precision from anything you'll find from a semi-custom shop. I've never heard that their older pistols are any different.

http://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/152317/infinityused/strayer-voigt-infinity-swat-40sw-police-trades

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I have no experience with these. They do look like something that my safe needs to make room for though. Good luck and let us know if you get on and what it is like to shoot.

Shoot Safe and Often
 
Two questions:

1. What kind of police department provides SVI near custom guns for its officers?

2. What kind of person buys a $2,000 used handgun off the Internet without even photos of individual guns?
 
Good luck and let us know if you get on and what it is like to shoot.
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Thanks, but I'm not actually buying one of these. :) Just passing it along both because I found the idea of police departments issuing Infinitys to be rather insane and because I thought someone here might have an interest.

However, I can tell you that an Infinity is one of the smoothest, most accurate pistols you'll ever fire. I was able to inspect and shoot an SVI/Infinity 1911 (traditional single-stack) a few weeks back, and it blew my mind. I'll give a personal range report when my two guns on order come in about this time next year. :D
 
1. What kind of police department provides SVI near custom guns for its officers?
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I'd also love to know.

2. What kind of person buys a $2,000 used handgun off the Internet without even photos of individual guns?
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I'd be surprised if a prospective buyer couldn't coax a few photos out of them over the phone for pistols in a specified condition.
 
New they are over 4K and a year wait unless you buy one from a place like this (scroll down to the bottom for SV's):
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Man, I wouldn't buy one if I couldn't spec it out to every last detail. That's a big part of the enjoyment for me. And Brandon will also do plenty of things that aren't on the already-extensive option list for the guns.

But I suppose there are plenty of people who are most interested in avoiding a year wait, even if it means accepting a gun with features that differ from the ones they would have chosen.
 
"What kind of person buys a $2,000 used handgun off the Internet without even photos of individual guns?"

I am certain the only interested customers know the serial numbers already.

TCB
 
I have shot one in .40 S&W. It had SWAT engraved on the slide.
It may have been a well fit pistol when it was new but the one I shot was on the loose side. When in lock-up, barrel could be moved at the muzzle. There was big slide/frame play. Trigger pull was light and clean.
My Kimber Custom II Target has tighter fit (slide/frame and barrel/bushing).
However, it felt very nice in the hand and recoil was pleasant. I did not really test for accuracy but owner said that accuracy is super.
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Would I pay 2,000 for it (used)? No. Maybe I am crazy I would rather spend the 2,000 on an STI.
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I was shopping around for .45 1911 but shooting the SVI in .40, I have been wanting a double-stack .40 1911. I cannot afford the SVI nor the STI so I am looking at RIA and Para-USA.
 
What LE agency convinces its tax base that it needs to lay out more than $4K for a handgun?
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Because thru the annual budgetary shell-game that all LEAs play, the department simply opted not to spend a certain amount of money on other items, services, or personnel (depending, ... like buying only 4 new police cruisers rather than the 6 vehicles they got funding for, or by not filling X-number of positions made vacant by retirements); that way, they could afford to equip their SWAT studs with all these neato, high-end blasters. :)

Seen it happen many times before ... trust me. ;)
 
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That's tempting! I wonder if they look as bad as most police trade-ins. The grip can be replaced fairly inexpensively. The slide is another matter.
 
"What LE agency convinces its tax base that it needs to lay out more than $4K for a handgun? "

In my neck of the woods, ever since the 9/11 attack, a lot of the LEA's have gotten every piece of gold plated gingerbread they asked for. You know....for our safety.
 
A LE agency who's SWAT team seizes tens of millions of dollars in drug money each year. I lived in a small town where local PD got in on a big DEA bust and received a certain cut if the seized funds. My impression was it worked out to 6 figures per officer. Christmas all year round.
 
I rushed to the site to buy two thinking they'd be the usual "police surplus trade-in" prices of $500 or so.
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LOL

LSP, do you really expect me to believe that you'd spend $500 on a .40 -- in 1911ish form no less? :)
 
A LE agency who's SWAT team seizes tens of millions of dollars in drug money each year. I lived in a small town where local PD got in on a big DEA bust and received a certain cut if the seized funds. My impression was it worked out to 6 figures per officer. Christmas all year round.
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There are also significant numbers of departments nationwide generating large cash inflows through the abusive use of the civil forfeiture process.
 
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