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. 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. 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. However, Roy Innis, president of the activist group Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), rejected the pejorative term: "To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form." Some advocates of the pistol say that it is reliable, despite its low cost. Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) reported that a Phoenix Arms Model Raven with an altered or damaged sear tip discharged unintentionally when the safety was moved "off" after the trigger had been pulled with the safety "on". 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. Serial killer Robert Lee Yates shot his victims with two MP-25 guns. Mark Orrin Barton used an MP-25 and several other handguns in his killing spree in Atlanta and Stockbridge, Georgia on July 29, 1999 before killing himself. The MP-25 had been purchased from a pawnshop by someone else in 1991. See also Arcadia Machine & Tool Sundance Industries Davis Industries Phoenix Arms Jimenez Arms Lorcin Engineering Company References External links 1970 establishments in California 1991 disestablishments in California Companies based in the City of Industry, California Defunct firearms manufacturers Firearm manufacturers of the United States Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1991 Manufacturing companies established in 1970 Defunct manufacturing companies based in California Defunct manufacturing companies based in Nevada