Nolte's weapon is a particularly large sap, which is flat, leather-covered, and filled with lead or lead shot. A blackjack is also typically leather-covered lead, but is cylindrical and therefore delivers a blow to a smaller area, making it deadlier. For a quick, close look at a blackjack, see the scene in The Untouchables in which Kevin Costner and Sean Connery meet Andy Garcia for the first time, at the police academy. To "see what he's made of," Connery goads Garcia with an ethnic slur, in response to which Garcia draws his revolver; Connery in turn pulls out a blackjack--a symbolic response of course, since a blackjack is no defense against a revolver.
Saps are still carried, in accord with regulations, by detectives here in NYC, and elsewhere I imagine, whereas blackjacks were outlawed, even for cops, long ago (which doesn't mean, of course, that some cops don't carry them). For more on saps and blackjacks, try this: http://www.donrearic.com/sap.html
As to where/how to obtain these weapons, is there anything you can't get on the Internet?
And a flapjack is something to eat.
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tracycoupe89
19 years ago
I have such a weapon. It was my father's. He was a constable in a small township on the edge of two large cities in the late fifties. After his death in 2001 my mother gave me his sap and his Colt .45 1911 A1. My brother got dad's badge though. I would love to have received it too. I do have his card authorizing him to carry a concealed weapon.
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