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

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

In production from 1850 until 1873, the Colt Navy Revolver changed warfare and the ... Known as the Peacemaker, the gun would’ve cost you about $17 in the 1870s. Today, you’ll pay 100 times ...

"A search was carried out at his home address," said Mr Welch. Police found half a kilo of amphetamine, a barrel of cannabis and a Colt six-chamber revolver. Wyrabkiewicz made mainly no comment to ...

it promises to be more durable and gives the revolver a blacked-out Have-Gun-Will-Travel look. The dimensions of the Taurus Deputy allow it to accommodate most accessories designed for the Colt ...

This handy little hunting rifle is chambered in three popular straight-wall revolver cartridges: the .357 Magnum, .44 Rem.

The power of some of today’s handguns would make Sam Colt’s knees week ... But who cares. This is a rifle cartridge in a revolver. It will push a 500-grain bullet to 1150 fps and generate ...

Harry O'Brien was just 16 when he took control of a gang who terrorised south Liverpool with a campaign of gun and arson ...