Bidding was fast and furious this past weekend for hundreds of antique ... guns. But the winning bidder was conducting his business via phone. He wanted the auction’s top gun: a .44-caliber Colt ...

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 ...

Burris is no stranger to antique firearms. An 1873 Winchester repeater rifle, worth perhaps $2,000, came into Burris' store from one of his regular customers Tuesday. But the rare Colt revolver is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...