T he venerable .45 Colt cartridge, which made its debut in 1872, has etched an indelible mark on American history and culture. This hard-hitting revolver round has been the faithful companion of ...

Colt's "New Lightning Magazine Rifle," so called to distinguish it from the company's previous double-action revolver of the ...

45 Colt, and it had a six-shot cylinder, along with a 7.5" barrel. "First of all, it's a simple gun. It basically uses the lock work of the, you know, Dragoons and '51 Navys and '60 Armys ...

Eventually, the Army phased out the Schofield revolvers and went with the SAA across the board. Then, it also went back to the .45 Colt ammo until it was replaced by the underpowered .38 Long Colt in ...

45 Colt cartridge. This very powerful round started as a breech-loader in revolvers and became a standard-issue sidearm for the U.S. Army, earning its stripes during the Indian Wars and in the ...

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.

As Vice President Kamala Harris makes headlines for her gun ownership, Newsweek looks at all the presidents that have owned guns.

Jesse James lived by the revolver ... Colt shot .44 caliber bullets, which did much more damage. And by the time of Jesse's bank robberies in the early 1870s, the weapon of choice was the Colt ...

When 14-year-old Colt Gray rode the bus to his Georgia high school on the morning of Sept. 4, he had a long gun hidden in a poster board that looked like a school project, surveillance video ...