Agents’ Sidearms

The reference firearms collection includes examples of all of the sidearms special agents have carried. Shown is the Colt Police Positive .38 Special revolver that agents were armed with in the 1930s.
Agents’ Sidearms
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Solving Crimes

A fired bullet is observed on a comparison microscope to reveal the lands and grooves and unique microscopic markings that were carved into the bullet as it travel through a gun barrel. The microscope allows an examiner to compare two bullets or cartridge cases simultaneously, under the same field of view, focal plane, and lighting conditions.

Solving Crimes
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Little Bohemia Pistol

A firearms examiner shows where a pistol was struck by a bullet during a 1934 shootout with FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin. More at: http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/lessons-at-little-bohemia

Little Bohemia Pistol