by kevikens
When my father-in-law worked on the rail postal car and carried a .38 there did not seem to be any concern over liability or anything else.
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kevikens wrote:Scharhorst; My father-in- law worked on the RPO cars in the 1930's and 1940's until he went into the army. He, and the other postal workers, carried holstered.38 Smith and Wesson's, hardly the wild West days and I doubt that Pinkertons would have worked Federal postal cars. Perhaps Pinkertons worked the express agencies like Wells Fargo or Adams and they may have had shotguns but I doubt that the RPO employees did. At least my father-in-law never mentioned shotguns