Ravens were good guns.
They were crude looking and made mostly of pot metal but they were reliable and accurate.
Same for Jennings.
“Ravens were good guns.”
Sunrisingly so. I took one on a debt once. It was reliable and accurate. Just too bad it was .25 which is pretty much useless.
My first semi-auto was a Jennings .22. It was reliable about 50% of the time, so it quickly found a home in a box.
(My first handgun was a Ruger Single Six, both cylinders.)
I knew a guy who carried a North American .22 mini-revolver, a tiny thing, and that as his main carry gun.
I suppose the tiny size would make it easier for someone with a real gun to take it from him and shove it up his ...
My backup now is a Springfield XDS .45.
If it’s going to be a: “He had a gun, and the other guy had a gun ... “ narrative, and the other guy has a real gun, why would you want to be the guy with a ‘mouse gun’ like a derringer or .22?
Just saying.
My Raven .25 worked ok.
My Jennings .22 was a jammer.
The worst was a Sterling .22 about 40 years ago.
I got none of them now.