2020 8:38 AM EST The Colt Model 1911 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol that John Browning dreamed up more than a century ago remains on of the most beloved sidearms in U.S. military history.

As one historian said fittingly, “It was the gun that won the West.” Of the many firearms made for the .45 Colt, probably one of the most famous is the Colt Single Action Army, better known as ...

No matter how you look at them—as outstanding examples of John Browning's genius, an interesting phase in American firearms ...

First introduced in 1873, the Colt Single Action Army has officially been around for 150 years. In that time, it has become ...

An American woman facing sentencing after attempting to smuggle a 24-karat gold-plated handgun worth $2000 into Australia is ...

Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps ...

Shortly after, the Army also began to use the Colt SAA around 1873. In 1875, S&W got a contract to outfit the U.S. military with new and improved Model 3 Schofield revolvers, with the caveat that the ...

Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.

A pistol fired point blank at the back of his ... the weapon of choice was the Colt .45 Peacemaker, which combined the bullet, gunpowder, and percussion cap in one cartridge and was therefore ...

Miles away from the scene of the long-overdue execution of Major Peter Petterson and deep inside the Mountain, Zane Masterson ...

A pistol fired point blank at the back of his ... the weapon of choice was the Colt .45 Peacemaker, which combined the bullet, gunpowder, and percussion cap in one cartridge and was therefore ...