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Randomouthburst -- Yeah, nobody had responsibility for it, as it was passed from one guard/shift to the next. The older woman "day guard" would have nothing to do with it -- it spent the day in a locked cabinet. No telling how old the ammo was -- it had turned kinda green.

Actually I couldn't believe they (the client company) wanted an ARMED guard anyway. The place made fiberglass insulation -- not exactly street crack. As a college student part-time guard, they (the guard company) sent me to a range to fire off a few rounds, then issued me the "sam brown" belt. Even as a punk kid, I realized this was insane. I wasn't going to confront anybody, armed or otherwise, for $3.50 an hour (or whatever it was back then).

sjf

Thanks, karder -- thought it was probably something like that.

Many years ago, I had a summer job as a security guard at a plant that made insulation. It was an "armed" position. There was a single revolver that was passed from one shift to the next. The most frightening thing about the revolver was that the cylinder was loose within the frame. That is, with the cylinder closed, it would rotate slightly within the frame. I was never sure, but I figured if the cylinder wasn't pretty closely aligned with the barrel, firing the pistol could become rather interesting pretty quickly. Anyway, I was thankful that I never had any reason to need to fire it. Kinda sounds like maybe it had been snap-closed a few (thousand) too many times.

That was the last time I had anything to do with revolvers.

sjf

OK, I'll bite -- What exactly is the problem with flipping the cylinder closed?

(SA's don't have cylinders...)

sjf