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\u201cIt\u2019s been by my side for 26 years,\u201d Officer Paul Sulzbach said as he exchanged his revolver for a 9 mm handgun.<\/p>\n

By Craig Ruttle\u00a0<\/strong>Special to amNewYork

Click for original article and videos.<\/a><\/p>\n

A well-worn leather holster holds a revolver hanging from the gun belt of NYPD Officer Paul Sulzbach as he patrols in midtown.<\/p>\n

That gun and holster will soon become a relic of the past, replaced by a modern 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and holster, made of modern synthetic materials.<\/p>\n

Sulzbach, 49, on the force since 1992, is one of 29 officers who have retired their service revolvers this week while training at Rodman\u2019s Neck gun range in the Bronx, after being certified with a 9 mm semiautomatic.<\/p>\n

With some apprehension, Sulzbach spent this week at the gun range to get accustomed to his new weapon. Referring to the revolver, Sulzbach said, \u201cYou become attached to it. It\u2019s been by my side for 26 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments after speaking about the former service revolver on Wednesday, Sulzbach joined more than two dozen fellow officers as they loaded, reloaded, fired dummy rounds and did more to familiarize themselves with the new weapons.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we have one of our last scheduled classes of a three day transition from the .38[-caliber] revolver to 9 mm semiautomatic pistol,\u201d said Richard G. DiBlasio, inspector and commanding officer of Firearms and Tactics Sector. \u201cWe have 29 students today, our last group. Because Commissioner O\u2019Neill cares about the safety of the police officer and police department, he wanted this transition over.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Aug. 31, all officers will be transitioned to the semiautomatics, which were first introduced into the force by former Commissioner Bill Bratton when he was the chief of Transit Police in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of good training we give the police officers,\u201d DiBlasio said. \u201cIt\u2019s a three day course; we\u2019ll teach them the fundamentals of shooting. It\u2019s a difficult transition when you\u2019re used to many, many years, in some cases decades, of using a revolver, and some of the instructors we have here are the best instructors in the world. We actually do some training in other countries for firearms and tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n

DiBlasio added: \u201cMany, many circumstances in the past throughout many departments in the world have come into predicaments where a .38 wasn\u2019t a tactical advantage to the perpetrator, or the target or threat. Now, with this transition, officers will have a better advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

DiBlasio noted that an NYPD officer was killed in the line of duty in 1986 as he was reloading his revolver, while the suspect had a 9 mm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that our officers have the best tools available to them, and their safety is our number one concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

DiBlasio used a revolver through much of his career, but said that the time is right for a change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tradition. Some people didn\u2019t want to let go of it, but tactics are number one . . . It\u2019s hard to change after years of having a .38. I think it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been by my side for 26 years,\u201d Officer Paul Sulzbach said as he exchanged his revolver for a 9 mm handgun. By Craig Ruttle\u00a0Special to amNewYork Updated June 1, 2018 9:28 AM Click for original article and videos. A well-worn leather holster holds a revolver hanging from the gun belt of NYPD Officer Paul Sulzbach as he patrols in midtown. That gun and holster will soon become a relic of the past, replaced by a modern 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and holster, made of modern synthetic materials. Sulzbach, 49, on the force since 1992, is one of 29 officers who have retired their service revolvers this week while training at Rodman\u2019s Neck gun range in the Bronx, after being certified with a 9 mm semiautomatic. With some apprehension, Sulzbach spent this week at the gun range to get accustomed to his new weapon. Referring to the revolver, Sulzbach said, \u201cYou become attached to it. It\u2019s been by my side for 26 years.\u201d Moments after speaking about the former service revolver on Wednesday, Sulzbach joined more than two dozen fellow officers as they loaded, reloaded, fired dummy rounds and did more to familiarize themselves with the new weapons. \u201cToday, we have one of our last scheduled classes of a three day transition from the .38[-caliber] revolver to 9 mm semiautomatic pistol,\u201d said Richard G. DiBlasio, inspector and commanding officer of Firearms and Tactics Sector. \u201cWe have 29 students today, our last group. Because Commissioner O\u2019Neill cares about the safety of the police officer and police department, he wanted this transition over.\u201d By Aug. 31, all officers will be transitioned to the semiautomatics, which were first introduced into the force by former Commissioner Bill Bratton when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leo-articles"],"yoast_head":"\nNYPD is retiring the last of its revolvers by end of summer - Gun For Hire Academy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunforhire.com\/academy\/nypd-is-retiring-the-last-of-its-revolvers-by-end-of-summer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYPD is retiring the last of its revolvers by end of summer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIt\u2019s been by my side for 26 years,\u201d Officer Paul Sulzbach said as he exchanged his revolver for a 9 mm handgun. 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