Discover how the Colt 45 became the iconic pistol of the American frontier, known for its reliability and firepower. It ...

Responding to a renewed interest in defensive revolvers, Colt has re-entered the market with a small revolver called the Cobra. This new handgun is reminiscent of an original Colt of the same ...

The original Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless hails from the very earliest days of the semi-automatic pistol. It was a time when John Browning and his peers were striving to define how these new ...

Those plain-looking cases happened to contain a .28-caliber Colt Paterson Baby, or pocket model No. 1, in its original case with extra accessories that came with the gun, and a .31-caliber Colt ...

The original Dick Special had an unshrouded ejector rod, common to Colt revolvers of the time, and Colt wouldn’t install one until 1973 with its third series. Opening the revolver is the ...

Colt’s original factory and the utopian village that flanked it (a.k.a. Coltsville) was like the Google campus of the 1800s. Now, it sits in ruin —because guns. It’s a shame.

Colt relaunched the revolver as the “Frontier Six-Shooter” and sold it for $17. The company sold 357,859 Frontiers of varying calibers between 1873 and 1941.

In the world of imaginative play, the 1873 Colt Single-Action Army revolver toy stands out as a timeless tribute to the rugged spirit of the American West. Drawing on the enduring legacy of the ...

The famous saying about Colt’s guns—“God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal”—captures the very real way the gun changed life for 19th century Americans.

More than a hundred years after Colt’s successful line of cavalry pistols the company released a new revolver: the Colt Python.One of seven mid-20th century Colt handguns named after snakes, the ...