Saving image in Django from request.get

Question

So, I'm trying to use request.get to pull an image from the Internet and save it in a django database. These are the following code and the steps I took:

My model (just the right bit, not all)

class Pistol(models.Model):
    gun_id = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    manufacturer = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)
    model = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='img/inventory', blank=True)

My code (I do this from the shell so that it seems disorganized)

import request

r = requests.get('http://media.server.theshootingwarehouse.com/small/2451.jpg')
item = Pistol(gun_id="1", price=400, image="1.jpg")
item.image.save('1.jpg',r.content)

And then I get the following error

AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read' 

Note. I work in python3.