The revolver, a handgun with a rotating cylinder, was first patented by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, nearly 200 ...

The Colt single-action revolver belonged to Captain Myles Moylan, later a Medal of Honor recipient — and has an estimated ...

38 Long Colt revolvers during the fight against the Moro warriors in the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902. But was the .38 Long Colt truly the abysmal failure that conventional wisdom makes it ...

Derek Landers explores how 19th-century American gunmakers produced cartridge revolvers while avoiding Smith & Wesson's ...

A new limited run of vintage Colt Model 1911 'Black Army' pistols were designed to invoke the World War I heritage of the M1911's original blackened finish that Colt used in lieu of the standard ...

and revolvers in history—starting all the way back in 1850 when Colt released a game-changer that would go on to catch the eyes of soldiers and gunslingers alike. Many of the guns in this list ...

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.

Nonetheless, the Remington Navy retained its handsome looks after conversion unlike the equally elegant Colt 1851 and 1860 conversion revolvers that look like a classical building with ...

Colt is no stranger to revolvers and the world of classic pistols. Their history with cylinder-fed pistols stretches back to 1835, when Samuel Colt patented the first revolver and founded..

Jesse James lived by the revolver, and he died by it as well. Throughout his career as a bushwhacker and robber, Jesse made use of Samuel Colt's revolutionary new pistol to inflict mayhem at close ...

Single Action Army (SAA), Model P, Peacemaker—whatever you want to call it—the revolver introduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in 1873 has one of the most recognizable ...

"A search was carried out at his home address," said Mr Welch. Police found half a kilo of amphetamine, a barrel of cannabis ...