"The Colt Single Action Army revolver, the SAA or Model P. The Peacemaker. How many monikers, sobriquets, can one gun have? But that gun's got them," said Phil Schreier, director, NRA Museums.

In all, the Colt Lightning, in spite of a stiff action that often required sustained use before smoothing out, remained in the line until 1904, with more than 186,000 guns produced. This 1885 ...

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 ...

“You shoot two, single-action Colt .45s or replicas of ... I already had horses—and two weeks later I had guns, and he and I went cowboy shooting.” Marley, the CSMA president, started ...

A 20-year-old Wyoming hunter says the gunshot that killed his best friend while duck hunting was an accident. But a ...

In the end, the Colt Peacemaker reigned supreme. It dominated the market and was widely adopted by the U.S. military. Compared to the Model 3, it wasn’t even close. Smith & Wesson produced its ...

In February 1881, 16-year-old Jim Gober left his home in Bolivar with his parents’ blessing. Gober saddled the paint pony he ...