Has anyone seen this .22 Revolver ?

Sounds like a Rohm.

RG revolver. Pretty much junk. I had one back in the early 70s in my moronic youth. It was a click, bang, click, click, bang kinda gun. Actually, it was so out of time and loose (out of the box, mind you) even I could tell it was a might dangerous. I tossed it. I only paid 17 bucks for the thing brand new at Gibson's discount (now defunct) in Lake Jackson, Texas.

Yes, RG was made by Rohm in Germany. I also had a RG26, a .25 auto, that wasn't near as bad. It was inaccurate, but always went bang and never jammed. Of course that one was much more expensive, 50 bucks. ROFL! I carried that back in the day knowing I could ditch it if I had to and not cry about it. Carrying was a class C back then. It managed to run off a mugger with a knife once, so I sorta have some fond memories of that one.

A Bit of History:

The origins of the RG .22-cal. revolver that was used to shoot President Reagan are in Sontheim, West Germany. A picturesque town built along a tributary of the Danube, Sontheim is the home of Rōhm GmbH, a 74-year-old firm that makes drilling equipment and cheap handgun parts. West Germans have little use for Rohm weapons. .....

Read More: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954696,00.html

That's a Rohm RG-14S, not to be confused with the RG 14. None of the parts swap out between the two. I have one of each... and of course this will cause everyone here to blow a gasket, but I think mine are great
If you don't shoot them too hard: Trying to shoot like full auto or a steady diet of hot ammunition, it should last for a... okay, not sure, but both of mine have over 1k through them and still are fine.
My other RG offerings (RG-63 and RG-38S in .38 spl) also have yet to lose timing. Go through the revolver checkout to make sure it's okay, and make sure there isn't any spots that are bulged and leak a white powdery "rust".

Cute cat. You can keep the gun. I don't recall mine having a swing out cylinder, can't really remember, but it seems like I had to pull the pin and remove the cylinder to load. Maybe not, though. Perhaps it was the other model? I do know it was an RG, had the logo on the grips. We used to joke it stood for "real good". The thing never fired every round in a cylinder and spit lead so much, I just chunked it. I was about 22 at the time, didn't know the revolver check out thing or I'd never bought that POS. I'm not the kinda guy that buys 1500 dollar .22 revolvers, have a Rossi M511 that I love to shoot, but, well, you know.

Yes. Thank you TSS. My Dad just asked me about one like this. I'm mailing him a copy of your pic(if that's OK) to see if his is similar. It belongs to a friend of his who got it from her late husband. I think I'll tell him to use it for a paper weight.

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Nice shot....what kind of ammo did you use to take the cat?....

RG, and Arminius also, serve a vital purpose in the firearm community. They debunk the myth that everything made in Germany is automatically a brilliantly engineered, finely crafted, heirloom-quality thing of beauty.
About six or seven years ago, my (now ex) mother-in-law found one of these among the effects of her aunt, following the elderly woman's death. Along with it was a box of .22 ammo...missing exactly the number of rounds that were in the gun itself. Nobody knew that the old lady had it or when or where she might have gotten it. My guess is that during the tensions of the 1960's, she probably purchased it and the box of ammo at a local store. I advised MIL and FIL, who are not gun people, to leave it in its unfired condition and buy something better if they thought they wanted a gun for personal protection. As far as I know, it and its box of cartridges have probably disappeared into a drawer in their house and somebody else will find it decades from now and similarly ponder its story.

I want one as a companion to my RG40. It looks like a perfect 3/4th scale model of it!

"The Saturday Night Special"

It's one of the targeted handguns that the GCA of 1968 was all about.

I bet you can still find quite a few of those handguns in the drawers of many beside night stands that belong to the greatest generation and their boomer offspring.

They weren't Colts or Smiths,Ruger was just getting started, but they did provide the peace of mind needed for a good nights sleep!