The Smith & Wesson Model 39 is a semi-automatic, double-action/single-action (DA/SA) 9mm pistol that made firearms history as the first U.S.-designed DA/SA service ...
FBI SWAT purchased roughly 800 of these pistols on a trial run circa 1984. Tragically, the M459’s best-known use in an actual gunfight was a tragic one: the infamous 1986 FBI Miami Firefight, ...