Early matchlock guns are extremely rare ... Luger, Mauser, and Colt models. By the turn of the century, just 8 years after Laumann, automatics were firmly established.

In keeping with the ongoing optics-ready trend in the handgun world, Colt introduced two new models of its Competition 1911 ...

Jesse James lived by the revolver ... deadlier models. The 1860 Army Colt shot .44 caliber bullets, which did much more damage. And by the time of Jesse's bank robberies in the early 1870s ...

Moylan survived Custer’s Last Stand, his Colt cavalry model revolver by his side. "The gun is not only identified with the ...