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Raven Arms safety and trigger

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#1 ·
Has anyone handled or owned a Raven Arms mp-25 with a slide safety?
 
#14 ·
If you are considering buying one, save your money and look at good quality used firearms like Smith and Wesson, Ruger, etc.

Ravens are neither very reliable nor accurate. They were a cheap alternative back in the day, but the market is flooded with small pocket guns that are reliable.

There are much, much better choices.
 
#18 ·
Yes, the safety can slip off quite easily, and a six pound trigger is considered fairly light.

If someone is telling you that the safety on their Raven got switched "off" in their pocket, pocketbook, or someplace like that, and the trigger got pulled "by accident", it's quite possible.

Which is why we tell you here, that you should never (1) depend on a mechanical safety to keep a gun "safe." and (2) on these particular guns not to keep a round in the chamber. You should also never just put a gun loose in your pocket or purse. You should always use a holster that covers the trigger and make sure nothing can get "into" the trigger.
 
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#19 · (Edited)
I have a Raven 25 and it is a great little 'Saturday Night Special". Paid $59 for it to a guy parked at a gun show parking lot years ago. Sold it out of the trunk of his car. Perfectly apropos for the gun and the culture it represents. Goes bang every time. Made out of the best pop metal and zinc money can buy. Mine is beautiful nickel plated with black phenolic grips. My personal 'throw down' gun. I Keep it in a cosmetic case in a drawer in the master bathroom loaded with Glaser 25 ACP frangible rounds. All rogue turds beware! To the OP, inexpensive guns do need to be kept with the chamber empty. There are better weapons in small calibers, my personal favorite is the Beretta model 21. There is an old gun culture adage that is better to have any gun rather than NO gun. If all I could afford was a Hi-Point, I'd have a Hi-point.
 
#20 ·
I have a Raven 25 and it is a great little 'Saturday Night Special". Paid $59 for it to a guy parked at a gun show parking lot years ago. Sold it out of the trunk of his car. Perfectly apropos for the gun and the culture it represents. Goes bang every time. Made out of the best pop metal and zinc cheap money ban buy. Mine is beautiful nickel plated with black phenolic grips. My personal 'throw down' gun. I Keep it in a cosmetic case in a drawer in the master bathroom loaded with Glaser 25 ACP frangible rounds. All rogue turds beware! To the OP, inexpensive guns do need to be kept with the chamber empty. There are better weapons in small calibers, my personal favorite is the Beretta model 21. There is an old gun culture adage that is better to have any gun rather than NO gun. If all I could afford was a Hi-Point, I'd have a Hi-point.
You bring up a good point. Many customers I sold those guns to just couldn't afford anything else at the time. With a Raven you had a decent chance of getting one that functioned just fine. The Jennings not so much.
 
#22 ·
Someone gave me one years ago. The safety slides for and aft, has no positive engagement and my opinion completely unreliable. As far as the trigger pull goes I don't remember. I disassembled it and put it in the back of the safe. This particular one I have very little interest. Nickel plated with walnut grips. The looks of it remind me of a current model Hi Point.
I do have a J22 that I do like, but he Raven Arms, no thanks.
 
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