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Advertisement from 1904: “Absolutely Safe” (lemmy.world)

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[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mod of the Forgotten Weapons community chiming in to explain. Iver Johnson revolvers featured a (at the time) new safety mechanism that prevented the guns from going off when dropped. I wouldn't recommend giving it to a baby though.

More famously they had a "Hammer the Hammer" ad series where they showed this off.

Post with more info: https://lemmy.world/post/10228746

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

That's not a baby. She's old enough to own at least 2 or 3 guns!

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

The baby is on the right duh

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

She was probably teething and they put some opium on her pacifier.

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

That's a pretty sweet looking revolver though

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