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JENNINGS NINE
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Just purchased a jennings nine, for almost nothing, any info on this gun, I am not too impressed with the gun, have not fired it, took it apart and back together, that was fun! Let me know what you think,
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Not a high quality firearm. If it works, it may work for awhile. Don't expect to put thousands of rounds through it....
quote:Originally posted by Wehrmacht_45
I do not consider myself an elitist as I own several budget guns, but I would rather pay a little more for a Makarov.
-The term "elitist" refers to the left wing drooling secular liberal gun-banners who refer to weapons like the Jennings line, Raven and other low budget handguns as the so-called "Saturday Night Special"
Of course these elitists believe it is acceptable that they, themselves own handguns, since they consider themselves several classes higer than the rest of American citizens ("the masses"), and certainly more responsible than we are.
Lets give you some good examples and descriptions of "elitist" as the term relates to guns in the United States.
Let's quote Sarah Brady, the rabid queen chairman of the gun-ban group, Handguns Incorporated who, in a conversation with Senator Howard Metzenbaum, and quoted in the January 1994 issue of The National Educator, "Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
And, of course Bill Clinton, who made "*" a topic of dinnnertable conversation and taught our young children that oral copulation is not sex, made a 1994 speech saying:
"When we (American patriots and "founding fathers" of the Revolutionary War period) got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans... and so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
-Whew!!! Okay, back to the Jennings Nine!
Most of these very inexpensive guns have major parts, such as the slide, and in some cases the frame, cast from pot metal. Pot metal (a.k.a. die-cast zinc) is used because it is inexpensive and the process itself to create the cast parts is inexpensive. There is no standard for pot metal, so manufacturers hatch up their own blend of various low melting point metals (usually <800 degrees F) to create the alloy they use. With no standard to hold to, the manufacturer could vary his pot metal alloy with every casting run. Generally, however, the content is over 90% zinc, maybe 5% aluminum and the remaining fractional percentages consisting of tiny quantities of other metals such as copper, iron, magnesium, etc.
One problem with pot metal is that it is hard to get the castings clean and free of oxides caused by "overcooking" the melted metal, because there is a very narrow temperature range between where the metal melts and where it boils (turns to gas), thereby creating voids (weak spots and corrosion) within the castings.
Another problem is the obvious fact that the metal parts are very soft and weak compared to their steel counterparts. Therefore, it is not at all uncommon to find that just dropping the gun on the floor or driveway could cause the gun to simply break or deform so it will no longer function. You can't bend it back either; it will break.
Also, just shooting the gun will cause the slide to noticeably deteriorate, at least in the beginning. After shooting the gun, just look inside the ejection port or remove the slide and look for the metal shavings caught up in the grease (you gotta use lots of lube on the pot metal parts). Enough of the slide will be shaved off until it is so sloppy of a fit that you can rattle it around a bit. That's why 74Cuda said, quote:Don't expect to put thousands of rounds through it.....
Those are the facts. These guns are NOT in the same league as budget guns such as the Makarov, the CZ52, and other inexpensive surplus guns. Smith & Wesson (and maybe others, too, I don't know) came out with their own pot metal gun, the Sigma, ten or twelve years ago. I don't know if it is still in production. You can probably find some on Gun Broker, but in my opinion any price over $150.00 is probably too much and maybe not even that, depending on how many rounds have gone through it.
However, these guns fill a niche and it is not what the liberal gun banners would like you to believe: That it is a cheap murder weapon for gangs. Those guys buy the best with the drug money they make. These pot metal guns are generally purchased by everyday, law abiding citizens who need a defensive weapon and cannot afford the higher end guns. These folks usually won't shoot the gun much, and if that's all you have, they will function okay as an up-close defensive weapon.
"Wolf": Nice comentary on Billdo by the way! I would assume that he would rather see all guns off the streets as someday some 19 year old interns Dad is liable to show up toting iron in an endeavour to help him better define "Oral Sex". I lived in Arkansas when he was still govenor...good luck finding many people down there that will now admit to having voted for him. An American horror story (Sorry, perhaps I mis-spelled that...would not "whoar-er" be a better appelation?) , he and his disgusting "family". Socialist rat basturds all.
I was, at first, none too sure where you were going with that Wolf, but in the end, I find that I largely agree with your apprisal of the situation. I, personally would still rather have a slightly down condition Makarov in my hands than a new Jennings, Bryco or Hi-Point. Pot metal, used ANYWHERE in a handgun that generates as much pressure as a 9mm Parabellum makes me a tad nervous. A Makarov can be picked up as low as $125 to $150 and is ALL STEEL. If you drop it, it will not deform or shatter, and the chambering is a nice compromise between the 380 and 9mm.
"Wolf": Nice comentary on Billdo by the way! I would assume that he would rather see all guns off the streets as someday some 19 year old interns Dad is liable to show up toting iron in an endeavour to help him better define "Oral Sex". I lived in Arkansas when he was still govenor...good luck finding many people down there that will now admit to having voted for him. An American horror story (Sorry, perhaps I mis-spelled that...would not "whoar-er" be a better appelation?) , he and his disgusting "family". Socialist rat basturds all.