“Papa Says It Won’t Hurt Us” …
This old Iver Johnson advertisement gave me such a good laugh 
[ Many thanks to Dave for emailing me the link. ]
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emdflwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 1:37 pm Link To Comment |
Actually the premise was that a child would not be able to compress the safety bar in the backstrap( that’s why this particular gendre of revolvers were called “lemon-squeezers) and pull the trigger. And as they didn’t have an exposed hammer, the gun couldn’t be hammer-cocked or dropped on the hammer either.
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Patrickwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 10:59 am Link To Comment |
That’s really funny, considering the Secret Service Special is known as the Suicide Special, I wonder how late during the span of the companies existence did this come out….
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SoulTownwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 6:52 pm Link To Comment |
@Lance
Seconded. Brady campaign will probably photoshop this ad to make it look more contemporary, and boom! AWB2…
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Don Meakerwrote on October 15th, 2010 at 2:10 am Link To Comment |
Heaven forfend that a company would market its safety features! Whining about this is like complaining about disc brakes. Whiners like this wrote the Califonia Assault gun law that bans, among other things, a heat shield that prevents you from accidently burning your hand when holding the fore-end.
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Mehwrote on October 17th, 2010 at 11:47 am Link To Comment |
wow $6
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Lancewrote on October 13th, 2010 at 7:47 am Link To Comment |
I see the Brady campaign crapping there pants!!! LOL
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Alanwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 7:42 am Link To Comment |
/twitch….
I understand that this was a different time, but really, REALLY, who thought that was a good idea? There is a big difference between not going off when dropped, and will not go off if Lil Suzy plays with it unsupervised at bedtime!
How many people have been injured by “unloaded” guns being played with?
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Edgarwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 2:29 am Link To Comment |
Freak out any “Mother of prevention”, aka, an anti-gun egghead, with it…
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Domwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 12:09 am Link To Comment |
I have one of these in .32 ACP. I have to say, I regard it as “cute.” I think it’s how “safety” here means a transfer bar, and “automatic” here means “ejects the shells for you.” Awwww.
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Gunmartwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 2:32 am Link To Comment |
Probably why they are out of business.
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Jimwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 4:07 am Link To Comment |
Really makes you wonder whether common sense was invented in the 1940s.
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HowToGetAGunwrote on October 13th, 2010 at 4:23 am Link To Comment |
Accidental discharge impossible because of the two thousand pound trigger pull.
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SpudGunwrote on October 12th, 2010 at 11:45 pm Link To Comment |
‘And as a result of not being able to shoot the Iver Johnson revolver, little Amy suffered several more years of abuse from her father…’
Nice to see that even back then advertisers used fear to sell their products.
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wow $6
Heaven forfend that a company would market its safety features! Whining about this is like complaining about disc brakes. Whiners like this wrote the Califonia Assault gun law that bans, among other things, a heat shield that prevents you from accidently burning your hand when holding the fore-end.
@Lance
Seconded. Brady campaign will probably photoshop this ad to make it look more contemporary, and boom! AWB2…
Actually the premise was that a child would not be able to compress the safety bar in the backstrap( that’s why this particular gendre of revolvers were called “lemon-squeezers) and pull the trigger. And as they didn’t have an exposed hammer, the gun couldn’t be hammer-cocked or dropped on the hammer either.
That’s really funny, considering the Secret Service Special is known as the Suicide Special, I wonder how late during the span of the companies existence did this come out….
I see the Brady campaign crapping there pants!!! LOL
/twitch….
I understand that this was a different time, but really, REALLY, who thought that was a good idea? There is a big difference between not going off when dropped, and will not go off if Lil Suzy plays with it unsupervised at bedtime!
How many people have been injured by “unloaded” guns being played with?
Accidental discharge impossible because of the two thousand pound trigger pull.
Really makes you wonder whether common sense was invented in the 1940s.
Probably why they are out of business.
Freak out any “Mother of prevention”, aka, an anti-gun egghead, with it…
I have one of these in .32 ACP. I have to say, I regard it as “cute.” I think it’s how “safety” here means a transfer bar, and “automatic” here means “ejects the shells for you.” Awwww.
‘And as a result of not being able to shoot the Iver Johnson revolver, little Amy suffered several more years of abuse from her father…’
Nice to see that even back then advertisers used fear to sell their products.