Heritage Roscoe: Retro Heater
Say you’re worried about being rolled in the mean streets, see? If you feel you might need to wear iron to keep the redhots at bay, then the new Heritage Roscoe will throw lead and make you look like a private dick while you’re at it.
Errr, we can the film noir-speak behind, but that’s what the Heritage Roscoe is—a double-action revolver that comes in two versions. The first, with a three-inch barrel, looks just like a highway patrolman’s revolver from the post-war U.S., as seen below. The second, with a two-inch barrel, looks just like the handguns that detectives used in classic film noir from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as newer films set in that era (check out the revolvers that the LAPD detectives were always waving around in L.A. Confidential or Chinatown and so on). Back in those days, hard-boiled crime writers called a handgun a roscoe—now you know where Heritage got the inspiration for the name.
Here’s what Heritage says about the revolver:
The Heritage Roscoe is our tribute to the legendary gunfighters of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. The hard-boiled detectives battling mob crime, the movie sleuths, and even the real world cops of those era all had something in common. They carried a revolver, the Heritage Roscoe is a recreation of those guns. Featuring a deep glossy finish, classic style grips, and available with a 2 or 3 inch, the Roscoe is a fine choice for re-enacting your favorite noir films, or for defending yourself in the real world.
The Instagram marketing is spot-on. All they’re missing is an endorsement from Sam Spade… or Tracer Bullet.
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I knew older guys on the force who had these as backups in the 1970s. I had a .380.
They were smarter than me.
To call Heritage products crap would be to pay them a compliment. I have a 22 revolver that I bought to teach my daughter and nephews to shoot. With less than 50 rounds through it, the transfer bar jammed. It is an expensive and ugly paperweight now. Anything that this band of buffoons produces deserves to be considered as a very expensive and mostly useless wall hanger. Their pistols deserve to be New York and California free-to-buy as you won't get a shot off, try as hard as you might.