Do you know anything about this little revolver:

AMADEO ROSSI S.A.
BAD LEOPOLDO R.S.
MADE IN BRAZIL
INTERARMS
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
.38 SPECIAL

The gun is all stainless.

There is one little annoying "feature" I just discovered, there is a little square pad of steel integral to the lower frame behind the trigger guard, who's purpose appears to prevent the cylinder from sliding off the pin when you turn the gun over to dump the emties.

So for this gun, it doesn't appear to be reliably reloadable in an emergency, since when you turn it over, if the edge of a cartridge is lined up with the tab, the extraction rod is blocked.

Interesting design, obviously this is the classic New Youk Reload roscoe - you pull it out of your other pocket when you run out of boolits in your first gun.

The gun looks exactly like a S&W, some kind of clone probably. It looks like it's pretty well made for what it is.

Do you guys know anything about this little guy ?

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There was a recall because of a drop safety issue.

https://rossisafetynotice.com/

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Thanks very much for that, I passed (whew).

Anyway does anyone know about this apparent S&W Clone ?

WYSIWYG

Ir looks like a S&W clone because it IS a S&W copy made in Brazil, as marked.

Rossi and Taurus are owned by the same holding company but have separate product lines. It looks like Rossi is concentrating on rifles and leaving the pistols to Taurus.

The recall was good info, but the only Rossi I own is likely from the 70's. I bought it as junk at a garage sale, and had to use brake cleaner several times to get the old crappy lube out. Shoots fine now, though.

I think I recall reading something about these Rossi clones that at one point during their history, that they were actually pretty decent little revolvers, relatively speaking, sometime before or after they were crap, or something along those lines. Could make a cheap but functional bug or snake-shot gun while fishing or hiking in places where venomous snakes hang out.