Considering the breadth of firearms and other weapons curated throughout American history, few inventions left as profound a ...

Introduced in 1873, the Colt Single Action Army revolver quickly became a defining weapon of the American frontier. Though ...

This gun was named for its inventor ... 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 ...