An odd variation of the Model 1878 was the so-called Model 1902 “Alaskan” or “Philippine” model, which was sold in a U.S. Army contract of about 4,600 revolvers in .45 Colt with 6" barrels.

Colt successfully re-entered the double-action revolver market in 2017 with its .38 Spl. Cobra, followed by the Night Cobra in 2018. Now Colt has announced the all-new .357 Mag. King Cobra, which ...

Considering the breadth of firearms and other weapons curated throughout American history, few inventions left as profound a ...

And somehow, he acquired Samuel Colt’s Paterson revolvers. Hays immediately saw the possibilities. Give a Ranger two Patersons and two cylinders per gun, and he could deliver 20 shots without pause.

A Colt .45 revolver once owned by General George S. Patton sold for $75,000 at auction in Los Angeles Thursday. Profiles in History, which conducted the auction, had expected the working firearm ...

On Jan. 4, 1847, Colt won a contract to supply the U.S. government with 1,000 newly designed .44-caliber revolvers to help arm U.S. troops in the Mexican-American War.

The rare Colt "Paterson" revolver will likely be far and away the highest-priced item at a Dec. 6-8 auction featuring more than 1,150 firearms and military relics, according to Morphy Auctions ...

For example, in 1877 Colt introduced a new gun called Frontier (pictured at the top), which was a Single Action Army chambered in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company's .44-40 centerfire cartridge.

As far as snub-nosed revolvers go, the Detective Special was the world champion of the .38 Specials, holding six rounds instead of five and having an unbelievably beautiful factory trigger.

The 4 greatest handguns of the West were all revolvers made by one man—Samuel Colt By David E. Petzal Jun 01, 2021 Colt Paterson revolver ...