No matter how you look at them—as outstanding examples of John Browning's genius, an interesting phase in American firearms ...

First introduced in 1873, the Colt Single Action Army has officially been around for 150 years. In that time, it has become ...

Colt’s Anaconda, in 1990, confirmed that the caliber had not lost its allure. No less an authority than the great revolver sage John Taffin of American Handgunner Magazine labeled the Colt ...

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

Derek Landers looks back at the days when cinema and TV shaped his future interest in collecting antique arms and his choice ...

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.

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 ...