Yesterday, I bought a gun for two dollars.

[FatSlob]

The gun is NIB. Post your theories on what kind of gun it is, winner gets an electronic prize. Clues will follow.

edit: The electronic prize is merely an online "attaboy" or "attagirl" whichever the case may be.

[analogman]

1. What kind of gun for $2?

One of those rubber band guns?

[daytondem]

2. Staple?

[FatSlob]

3. It is a real firearm.

Not a staplegun or rubberband gun or anything like that. It fires real ammo that you could purchase in any gun-shop.

[analogman]

4. It is a real firearm

Not a staplegun or rubberband gun or anything like that. It fires real ammo that you could purchase in any gun-shop.

Interesting. Not exactly a gun I'd want my life to depend on.

[FatSlob]

6. Of course not,

It is, for me, not one that I would fire. I'm going to use it as a demonstration piece in a class I teach. Nobody will ever fire it.

[coltman]

5. squirt gun

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7. Starters pistol

[FatSlob]

8. Nope,

It is a REAL gun...one that fires bullets.

[rock]

9. Zip gun?

As in home-made?

[FatSlob]

10. Commercially manufactured

100% legal in all respects.

[toddzilla]

11. probably like a raven .25 or something..

eom.

[FatSlob]

12. You are getting close.

Not Raven.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

13. Raven

.25 ACP or .32 Auto?

[slackmaster]

14. It has to be a Jennings

One of the most unreliable and inaccurate handguns ever made.

[Sandpiper]

15. BB gun?

n/t

[FireHeart]

16. Jennings .22LR? n/t

[Frodo_Baggins]

17. Easy.

Liberator

[Young Socialist]

18. are you kidding? they go for

HUGE bucks on the collector market, in the region of $8-10K. same with the CIA "deer" gun.

[jtb33]

19. My guess would be that you bought...

either a Jennings, Bryco, or Lorcin. I pitty you if so. <:p>

[FatSlob]

20. Nobody has mentioned the manufacturer yet.

Here is a clue: They are out of business. For those concerned about my safety, I plan to never shoot it or allow anybody else to. It is solely for illustration in a class I teach. The illustration is "here is a type of gun to NOT get."

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21. Intratec/navgear?

Pro-Tec 25

[jtb33]

22. The only other "P.O.S." guns I can think of...

Are pretty much the same company as the three I mentioned above...

Jennings, Bryco, Raven Phoenix, Davis, Lorcin, Sedco...

[FatSlob]

23. Ding Ding Ding

It is one of those...

Clue. .22 WMR

[jtb33]

24. Well, it's probably...

A Sedco SP22 (blech!). No?

[FatSlob]

25. One more to cross off the list

Not a sedco

[MrSandman]

26. Take it to the next gun buyback...

Turn $48 profit and get that $2 POS off the street

[Liberal Classic]

27. A Tokarev or knock off ?

Such as a Chinese or Hungarian made one?

On edit

.22 magnum? Nevermind.

[solinvictus]

28. Tokarev?

Nope, Hungarians run several hundred and even Chinese are now about $200.

[Liberal Classic]

29. Did he say would shoot

Or could in theory shoot. :)

On edit it could have been tossed in as a freebie with something else.

[DoNotRefill]

30. an RG-10?

One of those german import revolvers in .22 short that retailed for $12.95 before 1968?

[FatSlob]

31. Brand was mentioned in post 22

[pyrenees]

32. $2 gun

It's possible the gun may not be legal.
It's also possible the gun may have not been purchased legally.

Did you buy it from a FFL dealer

Taking it to school to show to the kids certainly isn't legal and
I highly recommend not doing that.

The consequences may far out weigh what ever point you're trying to make.

IMHO
Pyrenees

[FatSlob]

33. Worry not,

The gun is 100% legal, commercially manufactured, new in box, and purchased at the store of an FFL. I won't be taking it to a school, but it will be at a class I teach, NRA Basic Pistol as an example of what gun to NOT buy. It will never be fired.

[jtb33]

34. It's a...

Raven. But I thought that Raven only made .25 pistols...

[Pert_UK]

35. I suggest that the responsible thing to do.......

would be to have the gun deactivated and rendered harmless, if you intend for it never to be fired.

There is merit in showing people which types of gun to avoid purchasing, but if this gun is dangerous (or just plain awful) then it makes sense to have it deactivated. You're intending to use it as a prop only, and deactivation would prevent any danger from accidental discharge, theft or malfunction.

There is nothing gained by leaving it "live", and you'd only lose the $2 cost and deactivation fee (which you could probably do yourself, one way or another).

What do you think?

P.

[FatSlob]

38. I could remove the firing pins.

But that would be a pain in the ass. I'll leave it in its current state, as it is already harmless. All guns are harmless unless the shooter (f-words) up.

[Pert_UK]

40. While I accept the point that guns don't do anything by themselves....

I find it bizarre that you wouldn't want to reduce the risk of accidental or deliberate misuse. Even if the risk is tiny, if you intend for the gun to never be fired why not remove the risk completely by deactivating the gun?

P.

[FatSlob]

41. Just in case it is needed some day.

If all I have is this demo gun and a .22 WMR shell or two, I'll use them to defend my self.

[Pert_UK]

45. Now hang on just a minute.......

You've bought a gun which you specifically said you never wanted to fire, or indeed anyone else to fire. It would be fairly easy to deactivate this gun and thus remove any possible risk that it could cause a problem, e.g. if it was stolen.

And now you are seriously suggesting that there might be an occasion when it was the only weapon available to you to defend yourself, and therefore you'll keep it, just in case?

I'm beginning to see why so many end up in the hands of criminals....

Come on......compare the odds of:

- you being attacked and at the time only having this gun available to defend yourself, along with the appropriate ammo

with

- the gun going missing in the course of its natural life and causing injury through misuse, accident or malfunction

I would suggest that there is a far, far higher chance of the second.

[foxy]

36. Was it the Davis?

[FatSlob]

37. It is a Davis...go model hunting now.

It is in .22 WMR aka .22 Magnum

[jtb33]

39. Is it...

A Davis D-Series Derringer?

[FatSlob]

42. You win.

Davis derringer in .22 WMR

[slackmaster]

43. Ah, that's why you referred to firing pins in plural.

That was a good clue.

[FatSlob]

44. Yup.

I'm sneaky like that