Did H&K ever make revolvers?

earlthegoat2 said:

Isn’t Stephen King the author everyone likes to razz because of poor firearms knowledge?

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He is for me. The Dark Tower Series has not very many guns in it at all, and it's like he tried to screw up the designations.

In the second novel Roland, the hero, is trying to find ammo for his guns, which are SA revolvers. After crossing into a parallel reality and going into a gun shop, he finds what he needs. 45 Winchester...……………… Nope. 45 Win Mag was a semiauto cartridge and I can't find any reference to a 45 Winchester that differs. I suppose you could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was Winchester brand 45 Colt ammo. But I struggled with it.

In the same novel one of the supporting characters was noted as carrying a Ruger 44 automatic. What the hell is that? The only self loading 44 Ruger made was a 44 mag carbine as far as I can tell. I assume it was supposed to be a 45 auto.

Mistakes happen, but I don't understand how he screwed up two out of two gun references. Walking into a gun shop and asking a few questions would have helped avoid the foolish mistakes. What's doubly difficult is that those books have been revised from the originals, and the mistakes persist.

They are a great series of books otherwise though.

Edit: Whoops, you beat me to that one.
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Dr.Rob said:

Beginning of of the next book the police revolvers are just gone.

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Hmmm, that's a good point.

I don't think it was ever directly addressed, but doesn't Jake end up with his father's gun (I know he has it in hand at the beginning of The Wind Through The Keyhole, because I started reading it two weeks ago.), and then Susana and Eddie end up with one each of the police revolvers at the beginning of The Wastelands? Or were they practicing with Roland's guns? My memory is a little fuzzy on that.

Actually now that I think of it, Eddie had Jake's gun while they ran around Lud trying to reacquire him.

Y'all do know one self-published author whose books aren't full of errors and who does know something about firearms. (I'm expecting to retire this spring and will start looking around for an agent then.)

One of my dad's friends was an author of German detective novels. I read one of them translated into English and was annoyed when the protagonist engaged the safety on his revolver. I never did get a chance to ask the author if it was a mistranslation, if he just didn't know any better, or if he was somehow familiar with one of the few revolvers that actually did have a safety.

TV and the movies are worse. Characters rack the slides on their pistols at every dramatic moment, whether it makes any sense or not. My wife refuses to even listen to me complain about it anymore.

If H&K had made revolvers, the ad team probably would have inserted the rounds in backward anyway.....

Tallball said:

One of my dad's friends was an author of German detective novels. I read one of them translated into English and was annoyed when the protagonist engaged the safety on his revolver.

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You know, there actually are some antique German and Belgian revolvers that did have manual safeties. Maybe this was a super old school detective.