Many Roads Travelled
During a January 24, 2008, police raid in a small Texas town a few miles northwest of San Antonio, a number of items were seized. Among them were a nickel-plated Model M1911 .45 caliber pistol and its 7-round magazine. A check by Texas authorities on the serial number —231920 — led them to a Department of Defense data base that contains information pertaining to military-procured weapons and the original unit to which they were issued. This research showed the pistol to have been originally issued to the Virginia National Guard’s 116th Infantry Regiment. The police turned the pistol over to the Texas National Guard’s US Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) for shipment of
