Discover how the Colt 45 became the iconic pistol of the American frontier, known for its reliability and firepower. It played a crucial role in shaping law and order during a wild time.

Considering the breadth of firearms and other weapons curated throughout American history, few inventions left as profound a mark as the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Introduced in 1873 and ...

Headlining the auction was a Colt .45-caliber revolver that descendants of Earp say was carried during his time in Tombstone, Ariz., and possibly used in the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

To trace the story of the Colt 45, you have to go back 45 years before the O.K. Corral to when Samuel Colt patented his first percussion revolver design in February 1836. Colt plugged away on ...

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 ...

44 Colt. It was capable of kicking a 200-gr. conical ball bullet out at 1,125 f.p.s. with 568 ft.-lbs. of energy, though these numbers are probably from a rifle. Buffalo Bore .45 Colt available ...

Some 95 years ago, the Army adopted the Colt-Browning .45 caliber pistol as the main service handgun of the United States. It gave the gun the official designation of “Pistol, Caliber ...

A bullet shot from both guns travels at 3,100 feet per second, nearly four times the speed of a Colt .45 handgun. He ran through a demonstration on how to cock and load both. He explained that ...