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Iver Johnson revolver advertisement, pre-1907. Iver Johnson was born in 1841 [2] in Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. [3] He was educated as a gunsmith in Bergen in 1857, and had a gun store in Oslo.
Smith & Wesson Model 642 Ladysmith in .38 Special. In 1952 the safety hammerless concept was applied to Smith & Wesson's J-frame. The finished product became the Model 40 and 42 chambered in .38 Special and is alternately known as the Smith & Wesson Centennial as it was produced in the 100th anniversary of the founding of Smith & Wesson.
Manual Safeties are the oldest forms of "active" safety mechanism and are widely used; however, many "double-action" firearms such as revolvers do not have manual safeties as the longer, harder trigger pull to cock and fire double-action provides adequate trigger safety, while keeping the firearm in a more ready state.
Top-break Shell Extracting Revolver (Manual Ejecting Model).32 S&W, .32 H&R, or .38 S&W; 5- or 6- shot. Build on the same frame as the Second Model Auto Ejecting, and features a spring-loaded center pin protruding under the barrel that is used to manually actuate the ejector star. 3 1/4 in. barrel, hard rubber grips with target logo, nickel or ...
Adam Levine is taking a trip down memory lane.. In a new clip premiering exclusively with PEOPLE on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Maroon 5 frontman watches and reacts to clips from his 16-season run on ...
Similar "hammerless" designs were made by manufacturers such as Iver Johnson and Harrington & Richardson and proved popular for concealed carry. The FitzGerald Special, "Fitz Special", or "Fitz Colt" is a snubnosed revolver concept that was designed by John Henry Fitzgerald (AKA: "Fitz"), an employee of Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1918 to ...
The Iver Johnson AMAC-1500/5100 is a derivative of the RAP Model 500, which was originally designed by a team led by Jerry Haskins of Research Armaments Prototypes (RAP, or RAI [incorporated]) (Jacksonville, Arkansas) as the Model 500 in 1981 at the request of US Armed Forces (SOCOM not created until April 16, 1987).
According to the foreman of the Iver Johnson repair shop, Berardelli's revolver was given a repair tag with the number of 94765, and this number was recorded in the repair logbook with the statement "H. & R. revolver, .38-calibre, new hammer, repairing, half an hour". [67]