Why do you insist on beating this to death is what I want to know? If you don't know that guns go down in price after their first years on the market I can point you to the very LCP I've mentioned here. It was selling for over $400 for about 2 years. Now it sells for about $300. The Raven did go down in price despite your faulty BS detector. But I don't think you give a whit about any of this. You just want something to argue about. BTW I wasn't talking about ignoring your post. I was talking about not reading that long and boring post from 45 auto about the relative price of beans in China err.. handguns over a 40 year period. It doesn't change the premise that a .25 is not equal to a .380 in power and even though a person can indeed use a gun with too much power they can certainly use one with too little power as well and that's the .25 caliber no matter what the brand of gun. How that got off on the relative price of guns is irrelevant. The whole topic irrelevant and what's more I just don't give a rat's rear. I've explained this before but you seem intent on doing nothing but calling my post BS. There's no point to that. My point about choosing between guns that are the same size essentially the caliber matters a whole lot. The .25 is famously underpowered. That's just a fact. The gun I used as an example to show the relative size doesn't change that. Even the slightly smaller .25's mentioned by 45 auto are still underpowered and they are not that much smaller.
I suppose we are talking about the difference between a mouse gun and a pocket pistol here. The mouse gun may be slightly smaller but you give up a whole lot of power. Choosing that gun to save size is not a good idea. It isn't a good idea at all. And all this stuff about the relative price of guns from 40 years ago is bogus. I only proved that the Raven was essentially priced at the same level as the current LCP. BTW the 1975 issue Raven I bought, even if it was bought at $50, would still be in about the same price range as the modern LCP. Since you're so interested in that argument check the inflation calculator to see what $50 in 1975 would be worth today. It would be worth $213.61. I've seen LCP's
for $262 with free shipping.
To review. The Raven did go down in price no matter what you think just like the LCP is dropping in price. BTW the price is still dropping. From what I hear the dealer price for an LCP is $220 so we can expect to see the pistols get close to that price at some point as dealers try to dump overstocked inventory. And the Raven was not so much cheaper than the LCP. That's not BS as you rudely suggested. It's a fact. It's a boring fact but it's a fact.
UPDATE:
Just to prove that I did not "overpay" for my Raven I offer this statement from someone who sold the Raven back in the 1970's.
"This was THE budget tacti-cool gun of the 1970's. We sold them by the gross in the 1970's and 1980's (I think we started at $79.95 retail..."
The price actually went UP for that retailer after their original $80 price. It was likely when the fire burned the factory down that the price went up. At any rate you can find this quote on
this web page. Again I have my receipt showing exactly what I paid for mine. Why you think you know more about their original price is beyond me. Yes the price went down eventually. For one thing the original company making them went out of business when their factory burned down. Phoenix Arms sold them cheaper. I know that happened but that was after the fire.
This web page says the original price was between $60 and $100. $60 in 1972 would be equivalent to $329.66 today. That's considerably more than the price of an LCP.
There is ample evidence that the going rate for those pistols in the 70's was in the same price range as many pocket pistols of today. Call that BS if you like. I have evidence. That's not BS.
But again it was very accurate for several years. It even function halfway reliable until it got too dirty and figuring out how to break it down to clean it was a mystery that was hard to solve. I have no doubt that there are better made .25's out there but I shot some that were supposed to be a lot better. They functioned better but the accuracy was never there. My SNS Raven was the most accurate .25 I ever shot. My mother actually bought one but it was a Phoenix Arms model and they were even worse than the Raven Arms models. I think my brother still has that one not that he would ever admit it. 
the credibility of major comments" means when people smell BS like "The retail price went down between 1975 and 1980" (you referring to the Raven) they tend to start looking around to avoid stepping in more BS, or in other words if you make a statement that is not credible it makes people question the credibility of your other comments. Do you get my drift?
