fartsalot Posted February 21, 2022 Report Share Posted February 21, 2022 Has anyone tried to find the History of their Reising and where and what it has done during its life? That is something I'm working on while mine is still in jail giving me something to do with my Reising. I contacted a retired Undersheriff from a department that held the gun. What he told me was that the gun came from a manufacturing plant that built Bomber air planes during the War I think they were B-52s. This was in Kansas City Kansas at the time, the building now is a General Motors assembly plant. When the war ended and the Manufacturing ceased, the gun was given to the Sheriff Dept where it remained till sometime before the 1986 cut off. andnr5d sold to a FFL dealer and at this point I do not know where it went up until I bought it from a dealer in Pennsylvania in Jan of 2021. The gun did see some police action in the 80s, the U.S. is going to send me a write up on a incident where he has a picture of a Deputy with the gun during a Man Hunt where a officer was shot by some escapees from a prison. Also a picture of a car that was the victim of a Mag dump from a car chase and the article on that event. The FFL that sold me the gun told me that I can get more info from ATF on the "freedom of information act" and the information should give me some tracking on the guns life. I plan to make a portfolio of some type showing all the history I can dig up if nothing else the value of the gun could be greater but I don't plan to sell it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Iannamico Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 I did an FOIA on a Reising I had, it originally went to an Army Reserve unit in Texas in the 1940s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpw43 Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 No B-52's in WW2. Maybe the Korean war? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Iannamico Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 From 1941 to 1945, thousands of Kansas City men and women made B-25 bombers used in World War II at the North American Aviation plant in Kansas City, Kansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim c 351 Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 A B-25 is a B-52 spelled backwards???Jim C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZelenka Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 I did an FOIA on a Reising I had, it originally went to an Army Reserve unit in Texas in the 1940s I haven't done a FOIA on mine, but it came out of the Corpus Christi PD along with several others. Prior to that they were owned by the Texas State Guard during WWII. Some of the guns that came out of the CCPD were marked with silver plaques that stated what civic assn or rotary club they were donated by to the state guard. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl7422 Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 Mine was from a lot that came from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department. I also have a Winchester 94 from the same agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsalot Posted February 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 From 1941 to 1945, thousands of Kansas City men and women made B-25 bombers used in World War II at the North American Aviation plant in Kansas City, Kansas. I knew it was "B" something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMGguy Posted February 23, 2022 Report Share Posted February 23, 2022 Bottom line, the military generally maintained no WWII unit level firearms records that exist today. An FOIA request is the closest we can come, but this will show only, in my case, when guns entered the NFA registry and transfers. Sometimes a user along the line will mark a gun with their own distinctive property or inventory marks. I have an Ithaca Model 37 shotgun with "MPD" neatly stamped on the receiver under the serial number. Don't know what that was, though. Minneapolis Police Department? Minnesota Prisons Department? Could be almost anything. Don't know. I have another Model 37 that belonged to the Buffalo, NY Police Department. I know that because the sale to me was accompanied by the original rack issue card from the 1970s, showing the gun to have been issued exactly once. Without some provenance like this, we'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNGUY45 Posted February 23, 2022 Report Share Posted February 23, 2022 Mine went to "Chief of guards" in Chambersburg, PA, in 1942. I'd have to pull out my FOIA papers to see the exact date.Maybe Letterkenny Depot, I haven't been able to find anything else out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsalot Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 How do I start the FOIA process ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryo Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 How do I start the FOIA process ? Here you go:https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/freedom-information-act-foia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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