Also known as the Colt Root Revolver, after Elisha King Root, who developed the gun with Samuel Colt, the small, graceful 1855 Sidehammer was offered in .28 and .31 calibers. And true to its name ...

1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock ... 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot ...

Colt’s Model 1877 Lightning revolver (occasionally confused with its 1884 Lightning pump-action rifle) was the company’s first double-action handgun, brought out to compete with the double ...

(This is America’s favorite rifle company.) Colt found iconic status in other avenues. General Patton was partial to Colt’s handguns and is known for carrying the single-action Colt revolver ...

This allowed a single individual to carry both a rifle and a pistol using the same ammunition. Colt relaunched the revolver as the “Frontier Six-Shooter” and sold it for $17. The company sold ...

Siva recovered the revolver and traded it to a man named Milton Brown for a Colt revolving rifle. In the ensuing years, Brown bequeathed the revolver to his son-in-law Maurice Cummins, who in turn ...

This allowed a single individual to carry both a rifle and a pistol using the same ammunition. Colt relaunched the revolver as the “Frontier Six-Shooter” and sold it for $17. The company sold ...

Its revolving chambers held [six] conical .44 caliber bullets that weighed 220 grains each. The powder charge—50 grains of black powder—made the new Colt pistol as deadly as a rifle up to 100 ...

when inventor Samuel Colt obtained two US gun patents and started his first manufacturing business. The company became famous for churning out revolver pistols and grew to supply the American and ...