Remington Model 81 Special Police

  / forgottenweapons   Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Remington Model 8 was one of the first successful self-loading rifles introduced to the commercial market, and it was designed by none other than John Browning. It was an expensive rifle, but popular for its power and reliability. In the 1920s, an entrepreneur founded the Peace Officer Equipment Company to sell police gear in St Joseph, Missouri. He would design a conversion to the Remington Model 8 to replace its fixed 5-round magazine with larger detachable magazines (5-, 10-, and 15-round, with 15-round being the most common by far). POEC made and sold the conversion until about 1936, when Remington replaced the Model 8 with the slightly improved Model 81. At that point, Remington licensed the magazine conversion themselves, and offered it as a factory option, under the Special Police name. Remington had big hopes for the rifle, but only a few hundred were sold, with the LA County Sheriff being the single largest customer, ordering 200 of them. This rifle is one of the LA guns, number 40 of their order.   / forgottenweapons   Related: Remington Model 8 in .25 Remington:    • Remington Model 8 (in .25 Remington)   Book Review - The Great Remington 8:    • Book Review: The Great Remington 8, by Joh...   Remington 8 in Slow Motion:    • Slow Motion: Remington Model 8   History of Police Armament:    • Video   High Standard Model 10B:    • High Standard 10B: Disassembly and Attempt...   Shanghai Municipal Police Colt 1908:    • Shanghai Municipal Police Colt 1908