Ruger LCR

Name: Ruger LCR
Brand: Ruger

Ruger lists the LCR as a five-shot .38 Spl +P revolver with a 1.875 in barrel, a matte black finish over a stainless steel construction with a PVD-finished cylinder, a pinned ramp front sight with an integral U-notch rear, and Hogue Tamer Monogrip grips.

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LCR

Ruger · LCR

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Scope note: Model 5401, the matte black .38 Spl +P LCR, and THE FIRST REVOLVER IN THE DIRECTORY — which is worth stating because several fields shaped by twelve semi-automatic records read differently here. Chambering: `.38 Special` was added to the union on a user decision; "+P" is a pressure rating this revolver is rated for rather than a separate cartridge, so it stays in the maker's wording and out of the grouping field. Ruger's page also names .357 Magnum, 9mm Luger and .327 Federal Magnum LCR models, all separate listings under the base-model rule, as are the LCRx and the .22 LR and .22 WMR models. TRIGGER ACTION IS UNSET, AND THIS IS A NEW REASON FOR THAT ROW TO BE EMPTY. Ruger's structured `action` field reads "Double-Action", which is recorded verbatim in `system` — but "Double-Action" does not distinguish double-action-only from a double/single revolver with a hammer spur, and Ruger's own site uses exactly that word as a top-level category, splitting its revolvers into Double-Action and Single-Action. So the value is a category rather than a trigger mode, and neither `dao` nor `da/sa` can be selected from it. Note the difference from the Taurus G3c, whose row is empty because the directory has no value for what Taurus published: here the directory has both candidate values and the SOURCE does not discriminate between them. Ruger states nothing about this revolver being hammerless, and the only other occurrence of "Double-Action" on the page is the navigation menu — the substring trap that has now appeared six times. Ignition and operating system are unset: Ruger classifies neither, and a revolver's cycling is not among the union's values in any case. WEIGHT SITS IN `weightUnloaded` FOR A REASON THAT FIELD WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR. Its discriminating question is whether the source says a magazine is fitted; a revolver has no magazine at all, so the question does not apply rather than being unanswered. The value is Ruger's published 13.50 oz with the basis recording that Ruger states no measurement basis, which is the same treatment the RXM, Mark IV and LCP MAX get. Overall height carries the same note. Slide finish is unset: a revolver has no slide, and Ruger publishes a firearm-level finish of Matte Black plus a cylinder finish of PVD — recording the cylinder finish in a slide field would be the Mark IV error in a sharper form, since here there is no slide to describe. Year introduced is 2009, from the `introDate` of 2009-01-14 embedded in the page's own spec object, and unlike the LCP MAX's date this one is safe to read as the model's: 5401 is the LCR's original catalogue number rather than a later addition, which is the check that record's notes require. WHAT RUGER DISPLAYS BUT DOES NOT SPECIFY: the page shows six further catalogue numbers — 5410, 5418, 5450, 5452, 5456 and 5470 — with no spec object, so their dimensions are not on this page and 5401's must not be carried across to them, the rule the LCP MAX record established inside a single page. Warranty is unrecorded: Ruger publishes none, and the word "warranty" appears zero times on this page, consistent with the RXM, Mark IV and LCP MAX records. Frame class is unset because Ruger publishes no size class, as on its other three records. Ruger publishes imperial only, so every metric value here is converted by this directory and flagged. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: a 1:16 twist with six grooves, a stainless steel material with a PVD-finished cylinder, Hogue Tamer Monogrip grips, the UPC 7-36676-05401-5, a $759.00 MSRP, and a "limited availability" flag — which is NOT recorded as a production status, since this directory makes no production claim either way (the G37/G38/G39 rule). KNOWN DEFECT ON THIS PAGE, LEFT UNFIXED DELIBERATELY: two row LABELS name parts a revolver does not have. "Magazine capacity" heads the five-round cylinder capacity, and "Slide finish" renders "Not yet verified" for a gun with no slide — the second is the same falsehood as the size-class row fixed on 2026-08-13, a blank promising a value that cannot arrive. The values themselves are right; only the labels assume a self-loader. Fixing it needs the page to know what kind of firearm it is rendering, and `firearmType` is currently the single value "handgun", so this is the same schema question Wave 04's long guns raise and belongs with that decision rather than being patched per-row here.

Reference fields

Manufacturer	Ruger^[1]
Manufacturer series	LCR
Firearm category	Handgun^[1]
Chambering	.38 Special^[1]
Manufacturer chambering	38 Spl +P^[1]
Generation	Not yet verified
Directory frame class	Not yet verified
Manufacturer listing	Listed on Ruger as model 5401, catalogue name LCR — the only one of seven catalogue numbers on the page carrying a specification object^[1]
Year introduced	2009^[1]
Manufacturer action label	Double-Action^[1]
Overall dimensions	≈165.1 × 32.6 × 114.3 mm / 6.5 × 1.283 × 4.5 in (height: measurement basis not stated by Ruger)^[1]
Barrel length	≈47.6 mm / 1.875 in^[1]
Weight (unloaded)	≈383 g / 13.5 oz (measurement basis not stated by Ruger; a revolver has no magazine, so the magazine question this field usually settles does not arise)^[1]
Magazine capacity	Standard: 5; no optional capacities listed by the source^[1]
Trigger pull	Not yet verified
Slide finish	Not yet verified
Controls	Replaceable pinned ramp front sight with an integral U-notch rear; Hogue Tamer Monogrip grips on a stainless steel frame with a PVD-finished cylinder^[1]
Warranty	Not yet verified
MSRP	Not recorded

Verification boundary: Published technical data are rounded, may not reflect manufacturing tolerances, and may change without notice. MSRP is not recorded: most cited product pages do publish a price, but it changes without notice and independently of the specification, so this directory has no field for it and the row stays blank rather than carrying a figure that would silently go stale. Values marked ≈ were converted by this directory from the unit system the source published; the unmarked figure in the same row is the published one.

Evidence tiers backing this record: Manufacturer. Unmarked values come from manufacturer documentation; any value drawn from a lower tier is labeled inline with that tier. Where two sources disagreed, the higher tier was recorded and the disagreement noted.

Sources

[1]
Ruger LCR — model 5401 specificationsManufacturer Manufacturer product page
Accessed 2026-08-13