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Turned Down A Free Gun Yesterday
Ridefar
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Jennings J 22 NIB.
Friend from out of state inherited it and offered it to me free of charge, she wants it out of her house.
I don't blame her, I would want it out of my house as well.
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Why? Sell it for $150 and buy ammo!
must have come with baggage
Those things sell. Put it in local auction and as above buy some ammo. Someone can use it for something.
Heck yeah, I'll take any gun for free no matter what it is or what the condition is. That is of course excepting any gun I think might be stolen.
A Jennings or better known as a throw down gun.
Or one with blood on it...
Perfect tackle box gun..
Could have been a glove box gun. 💥 😂
Have her send it to my FFL. It's worth the $25 to me!
A gun is a gun, no matter what make. I would take anything freebie unless the SN had been ground off.
I had a Jennings j-22 I carried as a backup for a time. The property LT took a bunch of small pistols out of the property room and issued them to whomever wanted them. I used it for a short time, figuring a HP .22 LR was better than a .25 ACP as a stopper. It worked well when clean. If it were clean and lubed, I could fire two magazines full of ammo through it. After 12 rounds or so, the fouling built up and caused it to jam. I turned it in and took out a Raven .25 that was dead solid reliable, but eventually gave it back and bought a Colt Pony Pocketlite .380 for a backup.
I used to have a J-22 as a tackle-box gun. No matter how clean, though, it had a tendency randomly fire every now and then when you would rack the slide and load the first round. No thanks! I just destroyed it instead of passing that problem along.
For the record, my next tackle-box gun was a Hi-point .380 that I gave $45 for used. Never, ever cleaned that thing once. Used it and abused it for about 10 years….water, salt/sand, the whole gamut. Never had one problem with it, and quite accurate.
I bought four of them many years ago I think 40.00 or so new at the time from a FFL fried of mine then gave two away as presents with a box of 22 for each I gave one to my MIL and one to a SIL and showd both how to load unload and use them they just wanted one just in case to have close by as a sense of security the other couple some years later I traded off at a local GS
I knew the pistols would go bang at least the fist magazine or three full and also knew odds were 999.99999% sure they would never be used . that part I was right
I bought one new in about 1991 for $89........one of the first guns I ever bought for myself. It was reliable.
Only owned one Jennings pistol. A 9mm version that couldn’t get through a single mag without jamming. Didn’t matter what ammo, polished feed ramp or different mags. It was traded off. I’ve had friends with the .22 version and they are hit and miss with reliability too. With reliable pocket pistols like the LCP or the Beretta Tomcats & 21A’s I just wouldn’t buy a Jennings or any of those Ring of Fire guns unless it was less than $50 otd. But free is fine, I wouldn’t turn away a free gun from someone I knew.
Don't blame you, junk is junk, even if it is free.....
That gun is a TV star. It's the #1 pistol on "COPS"! 😆