One of the most popular firearm series of the twentieth century—the so-called “snake guns” produced by Colt’s Manufacturing—is winding its way back. Colt’s new Cobra series of revolvers reintroduces ...

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Appraisal: Colt Third Model Dragoon, ca. 1855, from Bismarck, Hour 2. Watch Paul Carella's appraisal of a Colt Third Model Dragoon, ca. 1855, in Bismarck, Hour 2.

America has always been an inventive nation and this week we celebrate the filing of a patent that changed the history of this country. The man who filed it was born in 1814, in the city of Hartford ...

Key point: The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005. The real reason why Colt gave up on such a desirable money maker is unknown, but the high cost of modern labor — a single Python could involve ...

Over the past weekend, Colt Defense announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; a move that signaled how dire the legendary gun company’s situation really was. Their latest setback was the ...

The American Old West was a time of lawlessness, survival, and rapid expansion, and firearms were central to that era. For outlaws, guns weren´t just weapons; they were essential tools used for ...

This six-shooter, in the collection of the National Museum of American History, is not the very first Colt six-shooter, but an updated, slightly lighter version Colt produced between 1848 and 1861.

They’re some of the most precious artifacts in the Fort Sam Houston Museum, a long, rectangular facility tucked into one corner of the post’s Quadrangle, itself a historic building that anchors San ...

An expensive antique revolver stolen from a private museum outside Santa Fe has been recovered after the curator spotted the suspected thief on a television appraisal program being filmed in Colorado.

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