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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 ...

Officers also discovered stashes of amphetamine and cannabis after carrying out a search of his home but it was the shocking sight of the banned gun that ... possessing a Colt revolver as a ...

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 ...

This handy little hunting rifle is chambered in three popular straight-wall revolver cartridges: the .357 Magnum, .44 Rem. Magnum, and .45 Long Colt. If it’s anything like the original 1854, it will ...

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 ...

The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich ...