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Saturday night special is a colloquial term in the United States and Canada for inexpensive, compact, small-caliber handguns [1] made of poor quality metal. [2] Sometimes known as junk guns, some states define these guns by means of composition or material strength. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, they were commonly referred to ...
Raven Arms was a firearms manufacturer established in 1970 by firearms designer George Jennings. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibiting the importation of inexpensive handguns prompted Jennings to design the MP-25, a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol, and enter the firearms business. Raven has been referred to as the original "Ring of Fire ...
The first widely used and successfully semi-automatic .25 ACP pocket pistols were the FN Model 1905, Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket and later the Baby Browning. The FN 1905 was designed and marketed along with .25 ACP cartridge in 1905. The M1905 is a very small 7-shot, striker-fired, single-action, blow-back operated semi-automatic pistol.
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass-produced. It had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired the .45 ACP pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to this limitation, it was intended for short-range use, 1–4 yards (0.91–3.66 m).
High Standard .22 revolver: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Short.22 Long.22 Long Rifle: 6 United States: 1955–1980s Iver Johnson Safety Automatic: Iver Johnson.32 S&W.38 S&W: 6 United States: 1894–1895 (1st model) 1896–1908 (2nd model) 1909–1941 (3rd model) IOF .22 revolver: Indian Ordnance Factory.22 Long Rifle: 8 India: 2002
The Ruger Zip .22 (stylized as ZiP) is a semi-automatic pistol chambered in .22 Long Rifle, commercially introduced by the U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Company (USFA) in 2013. Although given some praise for its innovative concept, affordability and accuracy, it was widely panned for its frequent mechanical malfunctions, with failures to feed ...
A pepperbox by Allen & Thurber, one of the most common American designs A mid 19th century four barrel Russian pepperbox revolver. The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper shakers) is a multiple-barrel firearm, mostly in the form of a handgun, that has three or more gun barrels in a revolving mechanism.
Action. DA/SA or DAO revolver [6] Feed system. 6-round hexagonal cylinder [6] Sights. Fixed open sights [6] The Chiappa Rhino is a revolver produced by Italian manufacturer Chiappa Firearms. The Rhino's frame is CNC -machined from a solid block of high-tensile aluminium alloy and all internal parts are CNC-machined from steel .