Soldiers in the field can't wait 207 days for contractors to fix equipment. Bipartisan support grows for plan that improves ...

Considering the breadth of firearms and other weapons curated throughout American history, few inventions left as profound a mark as the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Introduced in 1873 and ...

Legacy firearm business Colt’s Manufacturing Co. recently won a more than $57 million contract to make assault rifles for the U.S. Army ... which purchased the gun manufacturing giant in ...

In May 1860, a demonstration was arranged to pit two variations (differing only in barrel length) of the new Colt pistol against the Army’s current revolver, the much larger Colt Dragoon. After ...

The lighter, smaller-caliber revolver was popular with ranking Army officers and ... “In 1861, Samuel Colt patented what he called his Model 1861. It was just an improvement upon the 1851. He made all ...

The first commercially successful lever action was the Henry Rifle of 1860 ... from interchangeable parts. All the American pepperboxes, as well as the Colt revolvers in their first decades ...

Museum staff determined the old pistol to be a Colt Single Action Army single-action revolver with a barrel length of 7½ inches. Based on its serial number it was assessed as being manufactured ...

Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company had already released a number of revolvers. These included the Colt Paterson, 1851 Navy, and Army Model 1860. Although Samuel Colt died in the early 1860s, ...

1860 Army – two of the most prominent ... formed the basis for an entirely new cartridge revolver that didn’t rely on any previous Colt parts. Thus, the Colt 1871-72 Open Top was born.

On September 11, 2021, one of, if not, the most recognizable custom revolvers of the last century will hit the block at Rock Island Auction House. The gun is none other than Elmer Keith’s No. 5 ...

Here are the greatest handguns of the Old West—every one a Colt. This Colt Paterson ... and it was handier than the Model 1860 Army. The Navy was probably the revolver that made gunfighting ...

The U.S. Army adopted the new handgun in July 1873, naming it the M1873, and bought 36,000 revolvers chambered in .45 Colt caliber. The revolver was introduced to the civilian market two months ...