The affordable revolver that changed history with Firearms Curator Lisa Traynor
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2025
- Famously and falsely advertised as a firearm safe enough to give to children (spoiler: it was not), this weapon became a popular choice in 19th-century America and was most infamously used in the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901.
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Thank you Lisa Traynor, curator of firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history
You’ve got no chance Sir, the lady is spoken for and lest you think that we duel accept your fate my dear Sir.😊
😮 You mean that that title isn't the sole preserve of Johnathan Ferguson. Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries he UK, which housesa collection of iconic weapons from throughout history?(!) 😳
# Looks as if the Autocorrect has had another hissyfit. 😒
@@grahampalmer9337 Ahem, he's actually, Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history. 😁
@@grahampalmer9337 "...Keeper of Arms and Artillery etc etc so on and so forth."
I must say, on a personal note, that the artillery videos seem to have been thin on the ground, lately. Who doesn't like things that go KaBOOM!?
My father carried an Iver Johnson revolver (top-breaker) in .38 Special during WW2 as a US Marine in the Central Pacific. It saved his life at least once as he shot and killed a Japanese soldier attempting to crawl over the sandbags of his 105mm Howitzer (3-H-14 4th Marine Div for those that are interested in what unit he was in) into where he and his comrades (gun crew) were spending a rainy night the on the chilly but beautiful black volcanic sand beaches of Iwo Jima (his fourth landing in the war up to that point). This video isn't an exact match to your pistol's story but it is a revolver of the same general type and manufacturer and it reminded me of him and this story I just imparted to you and your viewers. Thanks for the episode Lisa, well done!
Sir I'm curious was it a 5 shot also and was it brought from home. Also was it 38 special or 38 smith and wesson.
How did he come by tis revolver? I'm not aware of any 38 Special Iver Johnsons to begin with. S&W and Colt 38 special revolvers were handed out quite regularly in place of the 1911 or S&W and Colt 1917 revolvers.
Quite a few stories of service members saying "I used this gun in the war" when it's just something close to what they used and it's not the actual gun or even the same make and model. Very common in reference to bolt action rifles.
Well, I loved this. I was struck by the nerdpower of the detail that McKinley was shot by a first model, third variation, as opposed to the second variation on the table, and then the details just kept on coming--all in the context of social and political history. As a presentation of artifacts, that's a triumph of museology. Champion.
Nice video. I can see, Royal Armouries has more UA-cam hosts talking about guns, and it's good! You are doing marvelous job.
It's lovely to see some actual academics creeping into the UA-cam gunosphere, isn't it?
Don't get me wrong, I I know there's Forgotten Weapons and InRangeTV and a few others, but so much of my recommendations (with some notable exceptions, like the mighty meme-machine Paul Harrell) after I watch anything of theirs ends up being weird Americans demonstrating why the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment isn't doing anyone any favours.
Gotta shout out C&Rsenal too. It’s amazing that all these researchers and historians can work together to bring us content like this for free. Thank you all!
@@thescatologistcopromancer3936 Certainly. But that's the only bit of the the 2nd Amendment that ISN'T open to interpretation.
All the rest of it, the bits that talk about what it is that shall not be infringed, has been reinterpreted several times by the Supreme Court and by individual States, and I can even sense we're about to get into our own splendid little discussion about our own interpretations right here on the internet in the 21st century, which just goes to show how open to interpretation it all is.
She's so enthusiastic about the history of these pieces, it's kind of infectious, innit?
I love her accent!
Truly
@@oldesertguy9616 cant beat a Yorkshire accent
I just love the pure enthusiasm Lisa puts into this. Well done, Thank you
Lisa does a terrific job presenting, hope to see more of her, maybe some collabs with Jonathan too!
Loved the presentation, hope you will do more.
I love the advertisement , "papa says it won't hurt me", as she looks down the barrel .
That marketing with the little girl staring down at the muzzle while it points upwards at her face! She later appears in bed with her doll and the words emblazoned across her: “Papa says it won’t hurt us”! How times have changed!
Hoping to see more Up in Arms with Lisa Traynor! This is the first I've heard of it but I take it the point of this series is to focus on the sociopolitical impact of the showcased firearms. I enjoy Jonathan's breakdowns of the engineering and development history, but this is just as fascinating to me if not moreso!
Royal Armouries, you are on the cutting edge of a revolution in museum work: making history virtually accessible and easily digestible for all!
The advertisements with a small child playing with the revolver are horrifyingly hilarious.
There are also advertisements featuring a prim and proper lady in a long dress holding the pistol. It was marketed as a weapon to keep by the door in case of intruders. In reality it seems unlikely it would be used in such a way, but it is a revolver of a nice size for smaller hands.
I toted a .38 when I was 8 here on the farm. It was loaded with one hollow point and 4 snake shot. That was 1988. My son is 16 and has been doing the same since he was 10.
In the US when I was in 2nd grade, a local cop came it to talk to us and show us some equipment like body armor. He took out his Smith and Wesson 686, unloaded it, and passed it around the class with the cylinder swung out.
Different world, different culture and apparently they wanted to emphasize the "safety" aspect of this revolver. Quite a stretch anyway you look at it but there must have been some reasoning behind this ad even if we can't fathom what it was.
@@user-neo71665 When I was 5 my Dad gave me a Daisy BB rifle. I still have it. By the next year I was shooting .22 rimfire regularly with my Dad. First a single shot, then his Remington 66. I still have it. We used to trade off rifle for pistol. He was a better shot with pistol, and I was potentially better with the rifle. I still have both. I don't remember when I first started shooting larger calibers but I remember doing it. Including a .38 caliber cap-and-ball Colt Navy replica when I was about 10. Kinda cool, but a pain in the fundament to load and maintain.
When I was young (early 1960s) this curator would have been my favourite aunt by far!
Enthusiasm and knowledge combined with a 'Gather Round Children" manner of presentation is a winner.
Great history lesson miss traynor 😊😊 I have collected many (93) iver Johnson firearms over the years. I find them well built and capable. 😊😊😊
Keep up the great work ma’am.😊
Thanks very much Lisa and team. It was most interesting to learn about these revolvers.
Nicely presented. Thank you Lisa. Cheers!
I love that accent! Excellent presentation.
East Yorkshire? Hull?
@@tonyoliver2750 She sounds to me like a less strong version of Jodie Whittaker's accent and she's Skelmanthorpe, so certainly Yorkshire, but it'd probably take an actual Yorkshire person to narrow it down t' area.
@@Deedumdee Yes, I've listened to her again and Huddersfield/Sheffield is probably nearer the mark. She doesn't pronounce "so" the way I would expect someone from Hull to pronounce it, i.e. "sur". But what do I know? Perhaps Sean Bean could help us out?
Not from Wales , is she look you?
@@Deedumdee Yorkshire lad reporting for duty. Lisa has a Leeds type accent but might not be a Leeds loiner. Yorkshire accents change depending on the part of Yorkshire quite significantly (even a few miles away can bring changes) but her current accent may not be from her place of birth. if Lisa was born in say Holmfirth but has lived in Leeds or Bingley for some time she will have picked that twang up from there. Either way its lovely.
Thank you for an informative & entertaining video. Bit of a hot subject at the moment, put you laid it out well & without rhetoric. Hope to see more from you.
At 7:30 she speaks of people carrying them around for personal protection.
The tone in her voice was that she couldn't understand how that was possible.
Right now in the US over half of our states we have what's call "constitutional carry" which mean if you can own it you can carry it with no permit.
Tranafer bars are probably the biggest revolutionary change in revolvers since the swing-out cylinder.
Transfer bar safeties are truly a marvelous invention. Makes me feel so much better about my Ruger Blackhawk.
Agreed. Safety notches and hammer blocks are fail-deadly whereas transfer bars are fail-safe.
@@hailexiao2770 indeed
That was really interesting. Good job!
Great presentation. Thank you.
Absolutely brilliantly done Lisa ✔ 👏 👍
Hi Lisa. Loved you fluid and knowledgeable delivery about these revolvers and their political impact. Your enthusiasm is infectious 🙂
In "The Good Soldier Švejk" the hero of the tale cheerfully responds to news of the assassination of The Archduke Ferdinand by openly discussing what sort of pistol was used (he thinks a Browning) because you could pull the trigger on many cheap pistols until you were dotty and they wouldn't go off.
The Iver Johnson revolvers didn't suffer from that problem at all and Bobby Kennedy was also assassinated (according to the official narrative at least) with an Iver Johnson Cadet 55-A .22" Long Rifle rimfire revolver. In terms of _market position_ in 1968 as opposed to 1901, it's the same gun as in the video above, although it differs in the type and number of cartridges. And it's actually about as powerful.
Man, I live in Germany. I am a gunnut (in a historical and technical way), and my country makes it as hard as possible to do the job those splendid ladies and gentlemen at the museum do. People like her and Jonathan are my motivation to keep on pursuing my dream to work in their profession. Greetings and love to Germany.
I've no experience of our culture of access to these kinds of careers, so I certainly don't have any of German. But surely it's a very hard, niche profession to get into regardless of where you are?
What makes you allude to it being more challenging in Germany?
The scary truth is that it was much easier for German civilians to legally purchase rifles, pistols and shotguns before and during the war (1933-45) than it is today under the BRD.
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217how exactly is that scary? Germany was a dictatorship on track to total war. That is not an environment where guns are going to be scarce.
Am I correct in understanding you want guns to be more readily available than back then? Because let me tell you, we used them on each other...doesn't strike me as a situation to aspire to.
@@TheTutch So you're here on a gun channel arguing for gun control! Brilliant! I think I'll ignore this nonsense.
Yea you can thank Hitler for the extra difficulty of owning guns now. Your government dont want those memories resurfacing again
It was the original Transfer Bar Safety!!! Which is in common use with most revolvers in use today.
Found one of these in a box of junk someone set by a dumpster believe it or not. The finish was completely worn off to bare metal and it had a little rust on it. I cleaned it up and kept it as conversation piece, as it was not fit to fire. Eventually the hammer spring broke due to me sitting around and cocking it and breaking the cylinder open excessively. Eventually sold it to someone who needed some spare parts for one they were refurbishing.
Prior to the anti gun hysteria that emerged (with Soviet help) in the US after the assassinations of the 1960s it was not unusual for old guns to simply be discarded as trash or given to kids to play cops and robbers or similar games with until it was truly broken. Many guns given to kids to play with were rim fires of calibers that hadn't been made in the US since at least the 1930s. The lack of ammo made the gun useless, so give it to the kid. Similar for guns with broken or missing parts. Useless metal and fixing costs more than a visit to the pawn shop or hardware store to get something different. Give it to the kid. I had a .38 rimfire Grampa gave me when I was about 4 or 5 and one of the kids I played with/against had what I believe was a .32 with no hammer spring. I traded my pistol off to another kid one day for a bicycle. We were both pretty happy. I know he still had it a year or two later when my parents moved us to a new neighborhood and I lost touch. I also recall one kid with what I think was a percussion revolver with no hammer. 60+ years attitudes change about a lot of things.
@@kenibnanak5554 This is incredibly dangerous "advice". ffs.
@@heycidskyja4668 I believe the children are our future. I also believe that we need more danger and less safety if we're ever going to get off the big pharma happy pills.
@@heycidskyja4668none of what he said was advice. Get better at reading comprehension
@@heycidskyja4668 What advice? I spoke only of experience. Giving a broken cheap pistol to a kid to play with was pretty common before the massive changes in American society began in the 60s. Pre assassination, pre EEO, pre Civil Rights Act, pre-Beatles, pre-Woodstock.. Gosh, we even got firecrackers and M-80s to play with. Passenger planes had props not jet engines. I knew the ice man who brought ice by name. My Scoutmaster had a DeWat Tommy gun in his hall closet. America has changed.
Good morning. This is Ted from Texas. I love history and history about firearms an historic firearms that survived history. Thank you for sharing I greatly appreciate it
My Great Grandfather was a rural school teacher back in the 1920s in North Dakota. He rode a horse from their home to the school house every day, and carried one of these primarily to shoot rabbits or other small game. I still have it and it shoots quite well, although ammunition is hard to find. At that time and place wild game was a significant part of their diet. I also have photographs of my Great Grandparents with strings of up to a dozen ducks, geese, rabbits, and hares. (Presumably not harvested with that particular pistol!)
Get into reloading, most brass brass for older calibers is available, cheaper in the long run, and allows for a load thats not excessive in pressure for the individual firearm its loaded for :)
@@gamingpentagon I already do reloading. I'd just need to invest in some dies, which for the amount I shoot it doesn't necessarily make sense.
A new face for me. More of this. You obviously have a lot of talents in your staff.
The 32 caliber pistols have for some time now been unjustly maligned. As a retired CSI and Peace Officer who has worked hundreds of shooting cases, I wish to make a point. Pistols can be broken down into two very basic types.
1 Pistols designed and primarily used by the military and law enforcement for both defensive and offensive combat.
These will generally be 9mm and up in caliber. Their primary advantages are:
They are more effective at penetrating objects that an attacker might use for cover or concealment;
They are better at stopping a determined attacker;
They are effective at longer ranges.
But the price for all this is a manageable but sharp or heavy recoil, and more expensive ammunition.
2. Pistols designed for, and used primarily by, civilians for self-defense.
Civilians generally do not go looking for violent criminals or enemy solders.
Thus, their pistols are designed to be used at close range (say 15-20 feet or across a room with no cover or concealment).
For this reason, they did not and do not need to be as powerful in order to stop an attacker at close range. A very light recoiling 22lr can and has on many occasions done the job. However, a 32 is a center fire cartridge, which makes it more reliable and more effective than the 22lr with only a slight increases in recoil. The ammunition for a long time was cheaper than the larger calibers and thus more affordable for the public, permitting their owners to train or practice more often. This made them more effective when needed. The smaller, lighter rounds loose energy faster and are less likely to be as dangerous after passing through a wall or ceiling. And lastly, the pistols were and are smaller, lighter, and thus more convenient to carry.
Note: The 380 ACP, especially with the newer, better ammunition, is a little larger and has a slightly stronger recoil than a 32 ACP and could be considered to occupy a middle space and acceptable for either police or civilian purposes.
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It's cool to see how different terminology changes over times
my family still has the model 3 that my great grandfather carried in WW1, it's a beautiful revolver
Good to see all these videos from Leeds Armouries. I would have loved to work there but my real firearms education did not really begin until I moved to Wyoming 21 years ago. Despite a term in the RM I was amazed at how much I did not know. Now I have a pistol range at the back of the house. I have a couple of 1911s, a HiPower and Smith & Wesson. I do some basic gunsmithing from my early education as a tool maker. I have a battle rifle I built in 7.62x51 that shots 1” group at 100 yds. Of course if I came home I would have to sell the lot. British are scared of guns yet there is great satisfaction in the efficient handling and marksmanship in shooting.
You are not alone. I have a neighbor who is retired MI5. He came here 35 years ago. In his 80s now he had great fun with cowboy action shooting when he learned about it and has many cool guns owning (much less carrying loaded) would be a total no-no back home.
I am a fellow transplant from the UK; 15 years ago for me.
I have a C&R license, and I can buy lovely old guns like these online and have them shipped to my door.
I love it here, and I don't consider the UK to be my 'home' any more. I could never move back there now.
This was a fabulous presentation.
While I really enjoyed seeing lots of Lisa, I would have liked a few more close-up views of the weapons, too.
Nonetheless, a really engaging presentation and I look forward to more of Lisa in future videos!!!
One does not accidentally pull the trigger! It may be negligent, but keep your finger off the bloody trigger, unless you want to shoot.
It always surprises me how many people don't remember such a simple rule. I follow it even on unrelated items with a vaguely (if you squint hard enough) similar shape, whether it be a toy foam blaster, or a cordless drill.
That’s crazy, I’ve got one of these in a junk drawer of mine, it fires 32. Short
I believe one uncle of mine up in the Chicago area had one... decades ago when I saw it and no clue where it's at now. Hopefully one of my cousins inherited it.
Beautiful pistols! Bill Ruger borrowed the safety bar idea (he called it a transfer bar) for the company's GP-100 and SP-100 revolvers. It appears in a few other Ruger revolvers as well. It's a good idea.
Very interesting indeed, thank you Lisa 🙏
Good to see this. Iver Johnson made good, inexpensive pocket revolvers for many years. They were often known as "Owls' Head" revolvers after the company emblem on the grip. A number of them were imported into the UK early in WWII to meet the post-Dunkirk British need for handguns. I was in Fitchburg some years ago and some of the old plant was still standing there then.
Very nice to see a lady reviewing revolvers that I own. .
Another interesting video. Not a gun enthusiast, but even so had never head of this brand of revolvers
Lisa, thank you for this excellent video. I really enjoy your take on these. Your comment on the times (late 19th, early 20th centuries), when many "ordinary" subjects walked the streets with revolvers is quite timely. Today's big cities are certainly not so safe, whilst the citizenry are less able to deal with the ruffians. Please keep them coming to us.
My father had a pair of Ivers', hammerless, as hold out weapons during WW2. He was once described to me as "gun tree" by his batman.
While the safety claims were clearly exaggerated, it's a reminder of how crucial it is for firearm enthusiasts and collectors to understand the history and context of these iconic pieces.
I really enjoyed this video and the lovely Yorkshire lass Lisa Tyraynor who clearly knows her stuff, I feel that if the title was changed to -'The 'automatic safety' revolver that killed a U.S President' it would pique a lot more interest for the thousands of viewers skimming through the plethora of gun related videos, and give it the viewing numbers it justly deserves.
My family has two! Hand me downs from a great uncle that had a bar in St. Louis.
It’s good to know that despite UK shooting organisations being inundated with and governed by Elmer Fudd type individuals, there’s still the Royal Armouries and the Vickers MG association focusing on the engineering and history of firearms. I was able to do service rifle in cadets but if I want to shoot again I have to go outside the UK to a decent range. But keep up the good work.
I like that her hair, top, and gun all match
Their "Champion" single barrel shotguns were design classics of their time, and still practical firearms today.
I am not 'official' but I have been interested in firearms - small arms - all my life.
The "Safety'' on the Ivor Johnson revolvers is referred to as a 'safety feature' as opposed to a 'manual safety' or somewhat archaically 'safety catch'. Nearly all modern revolvers - made in the U. S. and I expect the U. K. - have safety features almost expected and not used as selling points.
As a collector, I am fascinated with the development history of firearms. I focus on the early half of the 20th Century.
I do appreciate your recognition of the IJ revolver. It was for many years the 'common person's' revolver and the real protecter of one' person, possessions and assorted responsibilities.
I do salute your knowledge and obvious interest in the subject, but I must raise one point of difference.
All murders, assaults and such are occasioned by the intent and choice of the murderer or assaulter. Not by the presence of an instrument; firearm, knife, sword or heavy stick.
I have one of these that I still load for and use.
That assissins model was identical to was mine.
BTW, I did some ballistics and found from 20 ft it didn't even penetrate the back of a vinyl dining chair.
Surprising that British import pistols were so much cheaper than American built guns. Fascinating video, thank you.
At the time american favorites paid better than those. In Europe. It’s why so many people immigrated.
That salt and pepper look is badass.
I have a hammer less one myself, they are very handy.
So really it is drop safe with a transfer bar and auto ejecting cylinder. A cost effective solution to personal protection, somewhere between the S&W Model 3 and the Webley revolvers.
So it's very similar to the safety mechanism that Ruger still use on revolvers to this day.
I’ve got a few of these, sadly only one is in good enough condition to fire, and it has a few broken parts I need to repair/replace. They’re nifty little guns, I love the break open design.
More Lisa please.
3:44 SAFE FOR CHILDREN! Oh my days...
Regicide needs a comeback.
So this is what happens when Jonathan takes off his suit jacket
Me grandmother used to carry one of those in her purse from 1960 up until 1989 when she traded it in and got a Smith and wesson snub nose. 38 that she still carries to this day. She's 85 and still a very capable shot, we went to the range just last week and she shot all 5 rounds on target with about a 3 inch group. ❤much love grams ❤
I remember old timers who could not read called the iver Johnson the owl head because of the owl head on the grips.
Love the video, but HATE the way the camera flicks to a side views for no reason at all. Lisa keeps looking at the original camera throughout.
Love the hair 😊
It amazes me that .32 was considered a good defensive weapon… times have changed
I had an Iver Johnson Safety Automatic in .32. third model. Sturdy little gun but the double-action trigger was very stiff so I sold it to another collector. As to people carrying pistols for self-protection, all over the world, if criminals want guns, they can get them.
If you pull the trigger, it’s negligent, not accidental.
Theres literally no such thing as an 'accidental discharge". At least in a firearms sense.
I've got one and they are great little revolvers. Quite impressive for the price you would have paid back then. You could have bought three of these along with three boxes of ammo for the price of a single S&W lemon squeezer.
Thank you, very interesting 😊
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Good work Lisa. Superb video. Do some more.
These small turn of the Century revolvers are sadly mostly overlooked. There was an absolute plethora of these small self-protection weapons at this time. In America; Harrington and Richardson, Hopkins and Allen, Allen and Wheellock among the more well-known. Even Smith & Wesson produced the tiny M-frame .22" hand-ejector "Ladysmith" revolver! Then there were the numerous Belgian and Spanish revolvers as well as the more up-market British "Bulldog" revolvers and even a few produced in France and South America Also in this era the "Vest Pocket" style semi-auto pistol was just becoming available, perhaps to somewhat supercede the revolvers; all of which give a huge spectrum of examples for the discerning Arms Collector. I hope more will be featured on this channel ! !
This video made me feel like a young kid again, learning things in school - except instead of basic sciences or maths, it's about how the affordability and marketing of a firearm lead to the death of a national leader before the Great War.
Those revolvers are still quite common and cheap in the United States because Iver Johnson sold so many. I believe Iver Johnson was the most prolific gun manufacturer in US history.
Great doco. Perhaps the items could be displayed against a vertical background instead of them laying flat and difficult to see...?
And then in 1912, Roosevelt himself was shot in an attempted assassination (although it has been argued that his injuries led to a decline in his health leading to his early death at 60 in 1919 due to a blood clot in his lungs)
Wait, is this Jonathons boss?
It’s his sister. His whole family runs the armory. Passed down from his grandfather
Bosh* 🇬🇧
I wondered this too. Keeper is the overall master of a department (from what I understand.) Curator is a manager of a sub-section. So if you want to go in terms of rank, Johnathan out ranks Lisa. But this is all just speculation from a brief wikipedia bout of research. I could be wrong.
In the armouries website, she's listed as Jonathan is, a curator.
I didn't expect Othias to lose 100 lbs. and start wearing a wig, but here we are.
Excellent as always, you should use a lighter background to hi light the guns and a stand to prop them up.
Ohioan William McKinley survived in the American Civil War as a member of the 23 Ohio Infantry, only to be killed by an assassin’s bullet while serving as the nation’s 25th President. As a sidenote, he survived the battle of Antietam, fought at Sharpsburg Maryland on Sept 17, 1862. Together both sides together suffered 22,717 casualties, making it the bloodiest single day's combat in American history.
My uncle saw a lot of these in Ireland
I had not realized that transfer bar ignition went back that far. Were rebounding hammers protected by patent?
Lisa might be surprised to learn that there are still some U.S.States where openly carrying fire arms is still practised.
Most of these Iver Johnson revolvers one finds now are generally in poor condition. It could be how they were stored, cared for, or poor quality ammo.
"..the final bullet is, unfortunately, still in President McKinley." I wonder if Lisa's 'unfortunately' was meant on behalf of William McKinley or the Buffalo Museum's lack of a full set. Bit hard to judge really.
Interesting how the safety features were adapted into modern Ruger revolvers so we can have safer versions of the Single Action Army where we can keep all 6 chambers loaded.
I believe it was an Ivor Johnson .22 that also did for would be president Robert Kenedy..
We now have “Br’ish Gun Ms .Frizzle”! Miss. Frizzen?
Great presentation, awesome history 👍If I ever have the misfortune of going to New York again I'll definitely have to check out that collection to make the trip worth it! 😉 (basically the upper half of NY deserves it's own statehood, so my remarks don't include many of those areas, with the exception of certain overpriced smaller "rural cities" 😉... But NYC ruined the state for me... Nyack NY was even too close for my comfort 😆 Maybe do the super tourist journey of flying into Buffalo, going to that museum when the full exhibition is out, hit Niagara, then drive around the cool parts of the state for a week or two in the Catskills and Appalachians while spending a fortune at every tourist trap map marker possible in classic 1990's style (probably worse today) 😂 Or fly to the UK after starting some research for writing a book from scratch about a topic that would get me a permission slip to visit the Royal Armories private collection, well atleast one secure room off to the side in a basement with like one specific example because I would need the justification for permission... 🤔 Any thoughts? 😂
Incredible how much faster trials were back then. 6 weeks after McKinley died his assassin was in the electric chair.
very interesting thanks...
... and a pleasant change (not that Jonathan is unpleasant - is he on his holidays?)
And nowadays you can’t own a firearm in the UK unless you give up your manhood to the Parliament.
What a shame.
Your table is breathing! 😲
Question: how does the firearm know which cases are the spent ones that need to he extracted? You said opening the break action only ejects spent cartridges
It only lifts them high enough to clear the empties.
Any unfired cartridges remain in the gun because they are not lifted high enough for the bullet to completely clear the chamber.
Sometimes Mr Ferguson skips a week on Gamespot's Saturday special for whatever reason (no hate, the man of course has the right to do so)
So my question is, did you ever consider stepping in for him if he's unavailable?
Why would she when she's an employee of the Royal Armouries?
@@heycidskyja4668 So is Jonathan?
@@weirdeurasianboy8091 Jonathan consults as well.
Krag Pettersen video please!!!
Buys Iver Johnson from Gunbroker just to hit with a hammer.
Unfortunately I've seen too many that look like they've been hit by a hammer... several times. ☹️
My dad tried to kill the VP with a starter pistol. I’m guessing he got it off the street and didn’t know it was a starter. Was waiting outside the hotel for him to show up in an hour and was arrested. Spiro Agnew. Grand Rapids Michigan 1969 I believe. Made the National news