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 ...

45 ACP cal.; a Colt Model 1894 U.S. Army .38 DA; and a blued M13 ... S&W began M1917 production on October 27, 1917. The S&W M1917 revolvers all had stepped cylinder chambers, allowing use ...

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 ...

A perfect example of this is the World War I perennial: The armorer offers you a Colt ... Revolver, Caliber .45, M1917. What do you choose? Recently I had a chance to settle the 1911/1917 riddle ...

A Colt .45 revolver once owned by General George S ... demand for General Joseph Johnston’s surrender of the Confederate Army in 1865, which sold for $100,000. General Robert E.

The Colt M1911, a semiautomatic ... immediately following the Spanish-American War. The Army needed a gun with knock-down power, and it picked the .45. In World War I, Sgt. Alvin York won the ...

The Colt Model 1911 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol ... and WWI-style manual thumb and grip safety. As Guns.com points out, the actual WWI-era Black Army pistols that survived the war and escape ...

View Colt Model 1917 U.S. Army .45 Revolver FFL (1918) By U.S. Army; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) cartridge, it became the U.S. Armed Forces’ standard-issue sidearm following the failures of the Army’s .38 Long Colt revolvers during the fight against the Moro ...