S&W 422 and unknown revolver

[Wrangler]

Today my dad finally gave me two of this guns to clean. They had NEVER been cleaned. They are pretty clean now but I was hoping you all help me figure out if they are any good and maybe what cost they are. The first is a S&W 422 all black. I have found some info on it but I am wondering how much it is worth. The second is a 5 shot revolver. It has a gold label with "ind nac de armas brasil" on both sides. Is it a good gun? I just cant find any info on it. I am trying to help him decide if he can sell both of them to get a gun for my mother.

Left my camera at work so I apologize in advance for no pictures. I will get them up as soon as I can.

[TripleDigitRide]

Here's what I found.

This is a very popular revolver here in Brazil.

I.N.A. means Industria Nacional de Armas (National Arms Industry) and it became famous in the 60' for producing for the police, the INA Sub Machine Gun, in .45 ACP, that was a clone of the Madsen. (Very reliable, btw).

They tried to make a revolver, with a reasonable price to the police, so they entered the revolver business. Their products were not well accepted, by the force, specially the .38's.

Since we only had Taurus and Rossi, and imported revolvers were to expensive, the INAs, especially the .38, became very popular among security guards (not police) and civilians, that wanted to have a gun in house for an emergency, but never uses it... , or they were sold as "Saturday Night Specials" (we don't use the expression here, but we had he guns... )

The sad news are that here in Brazil, they are abundandt, and don't really worth something and DON'T EVEN TRY .357S ON IT !!! Not even +P...

Hope it helps a bit,

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil

Edited April 18, 2009 by TripleDigitRide