Iver Johnson firearms are probably best known for the transfer bar safety mechanism designed into their line of revolvers - often termed "safety automatics". This was pretty revolutionary at the time, since revolver hammers were usually kept sitting on an empty cylinder chamber to avoid accidental discharge from dropping the weapon or the hammer being dropped from less than fully cocked due to a thumb slip or similar "oops" moment.
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Iver Johnson also ran a series of ads featuring either photographs or drawings of little kids handling their revolvers. Usually there was some sort of caption along the lines of "Papa says it won't hurt me."Yikes.... that's placing a little too much trust in the safety features of the gun. After all, the safety measures only mean that the gun will only fire if you intentionally pull the trigger - not if its dropped. If your kid could pull the trigger they could shoot the gun just fine. That series of ads sure wouldn't fly today.
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Iver Johnson Firearm's also used the "Hammer the Hammer" phrase in some add's with respect to the transfer safety bar. One of the revolver's in my gun safe is a late 20's or early 30's IJ 4" revolver in 38 S&W, finish wise it's marginal with mismatched grip's and blue wear. But it still work's smoothly, goes bang and hit's a bit low left.
It's really terrible that they no longer allow babies to pose with handguns. It was truly a golden age.
Just another example of coddling today's kids :)
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