Editing Raven Arms (section)

==MP-25==
{{Infobox weapon
|name=MP-25
| image= MP25 1.jpg
| image_size = 300
|caption=MP-25 with blued finish
|origin=United States
|type=[[Semi-automatic pistol]]
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|is_ranged=yes
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|designer=George Jennings
|design_date=1960s
|manufacturer=Raven Arms
|production_date=1970–1991
|number= 3 million<ref>{{cite web  |last = PBS  |title = frontline: hot guns: Interview with Bruce Jennings  |website = [[PBS]] |url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/interviews/jennings.html  |accessdate = September 24, 2014}}</ref>
|variants=P-25
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|cartridge=[[.25 ACP]]
|action=[[Blowback (arms)|Blowback]]
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|feed=6-round detachable box [[Magazine (firearm)|magazine]]
|sights=Post and rear notch
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[[File:Raven MP-25 Chrome with faux mother of pearl grips.jpg|thumb|left|Raven MP-25 Chrome with faux mother of pearl grips and push up safety.]]

The MP-25 can hold six [[.25 ACP]] rounds in the magazine, plus one in the chamber, and is finished in chrome, satin nickel or black. The grips can be either wood or imitation [[mother-of-pearl]] handles. There is a similar model called the Raven Arms P-25. Both have similar blowback and envelope designs and are essentially identical firearms.<ref name="Wood2007">{{cite book|last=Wood|first=J B|title=Automatic Pistols Assembly/Disassembly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YYQC7ukSMKcC&pg=PA535|date=October 21, 2007|publisher=Gun Digest Books|location=Iola, Wisconsin|isbn=978-1-4402-2401-0|page=535}}</ref>

Early models have a sliding bar safety that will not allow the pistol to chamber a round or cock the striker if the safety is not in the fire position when the slide is pulled back. Later models have a push up safety that will not allow the action to be cycled at all when engaged.<ref name="Wood2007"/>

The firing pin also acts as the ejector.  It protrudes from its hole when the slide nears the end of its rearward travel, contacting the spent case and sending it up and out of the pistol. The gun's fixed sights are cast into the top of the slide. The trigger pull is fairly stiff, at about 8 pounds, 6 ounces.<ref name=Benedikt/>

There are conflicting views on the MP-25. Critics refer to it by the pejorative term "[[Saturday night special]]", as it is both easily concealed and affordable enough that the poor can afford to purchase it.<ref name="Freudenberg2014"/> Some advocates of the pistol say that it is reliable, despite its low cost.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=J.B.|title=Automatic Pistols Assembly/Disassembly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YYQC7ukSMKcC&q=raven+MP-25+reliable&pg=PA535|date=October 22, 2007|publisher=Gun Digest Books|isbn=9781440224010}}</ref><ref name=Benedikt>{{cite magazine|last=von Benedikt|first=Joseph|date=2021|title=Raven Arms MP-25|quote=Known as a 'Saturday Night Special,' the little Raven MP-25 belly gun was cheap but reliable|magazine=Shooting Times|url=https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/raven-arms-mp25/389100}}</ref>
[[Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners|Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE)]] reported that a Phoenix Arms Model Raven with an altered or damaged sear tip [[unintentional discharge (firearms)|discharged unintentionally]] when the safety was moved "off" after the trigger had been pulled with the safety "on".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firearmsid.com/Recalls/FA_Recalls%203.htm#Phoenix|title=Firearm Recalls & Warnings Index|accessdate=July 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116100320/https://www.firearmsid.com/Recalls/FA_Recalls%203.htm#Phoenix|archive-date=16 November 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Raven P-25 flyer with pistol features.jpg|thumb|Original flyer that came with the purchase of a P25.]]
[[File:Raven P-25 parts list.jpg|thumb|Raven P-25 parts list]]

===Criminal uses===
*An MP-25 was used in the April 24 [[1998 Parker Middle School dance shooting]]. The shooter shot two teachers (one fatally) and two students with his father's pistol.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/25/school.shooting.pm/ | title=CNN - Pennsylvania students cope with shooting spree - April 25, 1998 | website=[[CNN]] }}</ref><ref name="Lieberman">{{cite book |last1=Lieberman |first1=Joseph A. |title=School Shootings:: What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know to Protect Our Children |date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=Kensington Publishing Corp |isbn=9780806535692 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ozse_FSOXtMC&dq=Parker+Middle+School+dance+shooting+raven&pg=PT116}}</ref>
*Serial killer [[Robert Lee Yates]] shot his victims with two MP-25s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://prezi.com/gf8crc85u_qq/robert-lee-yates-jr/ | title=Robert Lee Yates Jr }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/yates.htm |title=Serial Killer Robert Lee Yates Jr |website=www.francesfarmersrevenge.com |access-date=July 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422025822/http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/yates.htm |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Mark Orrin Barton used an MP-25 and several other handguns in [[1999 Atlanta day trading firm shootings|his killing spree]] in [[Atlanta]] and [[Stockbridge, Georgia]], on July 29, 1999, before killing himself.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/its-bad-trading-day-and-its-about-get-165768 | title='It's a Bad Trading Day ...And It's About to Get | website=[[Newsweek]] | date=August 8, 1999 }}</ref> The MP-25 had been purchased from a pawnshop by someone else in 1991.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/31/killer-wrote-of-fear-hopelessness/af33786a-de37-45cd-9d5f-1098379892dd/ |title=Killer Wrote of Fear, Hopelessness |date=July 31, 1999 |author1=Amy Goldstein |author2=Sue Anne Pressley |author3=Hanna Rosin |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}</ref>