Here are the greatest handguns of the Old West—every one a Colt. This Colt Paterson revolver, in its original case, from the NRA National Firearms Museum bears the serial number 3. NRA Museum ...

Also, .45 Schofield ammunition—essentially a short version of the original .45 Colt—works in any revolver chambered for the .45 Colt. Colt finishes the new guns in the traditional way.

The re-launch of the Colt Python is old news in 2022, but the 3-inch model had yet to be brought back to production until now. This short-barreled version of the .357 Magnum revolver promises to bring ...

45-caliber centerfire Colt Single Action Army. Original Colt Single Action Army patent, submitted by William Mason in 1875. This iconic revolver had a six-chamber cylinder that used a loading gate ...

The Colt 1903, also known as the Model M ... it wears the same markings as the original guns made under the old blue dome in Hartford. The gun is an all-steel, magazine-fed, semi-automatic ...

1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

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 ...

defended Colt in legal disputes with John Ehlers, Patent Arms' treasurer and majority shareholder. Cased with original accessories and a spare cylinder, the five-shot revolver has an octagonal ...

but Boyer later republished the book with a non-academic shop after a falling out with the original publisher. Other notable items in the auction included a Colt revolver belonging to Earp's ...

A Colt Single Action Army revolver, well-known to collectors as "Black Beauty" realized $1.6 million during Rock Island Auction Company's (RIAC) May Premier Auction. It marks the second-highest ...