when Colt was just 22. Though it became a popular, time-honored design — Colt's famous "Python" branded .357 Magnum handguns fetch about $1,500 today — the revolver took a while to catch on.

Richard Cheney, owner of Short Colt Antique Firearms in Bigfork ... It was during this time that Cheney’s gun collection began with the single-shot .22 and shotgun his father bought for him ...

Mel Guy collected more than 300 antique Colt six-shooters – known as the guns that tamed the Wild West. He had searched for decades for a super-rare Buntline with a 16-inch barrel. The name ...

On that same day — June 22, 1971 — the Museum of Connecticut ... an early design of gunmaker Samuel Colt. Those guns are among 50 antique firearms finally coming home. In a conclusion to ...

put nearly 1,000 antique ... style guns to Nazi pistols and samurai katanas. Some of the rarer items, like the revolvers from the Wild West, fetched tens of thousands of dollars. This Colt Model ...

Headlining the auction was a Colt .45-caliber revolver that descendants ... its high value was at $125,000. The collector of antique guns also picked up a Remingtonball and cap revolver belonging ...

The gun he chose to holster on his waist was a Colt Model 1895 .38 caliber double-action revolver with six shots, a blue barrel, and a checkered wood grip. While it may not have been the most ...

A Colt .45 revolver once owned by General George S. Patton sold for $75,000 at auction in Los Angeles Thursday. Profiles in History, which conducted the auction, had expected the working firearm ...