The revolver, a handgun with a rotating cylinder, was first patented by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, nearly 200 ...

Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen. The Colt depicted is a Third Model Dragoon percussion revolver (ca.

revolvers were once the more popular weapon of choice, with manufacturers like Colt, who made the Official Police and Trooper models (the chambered .38 Special and the .357 Magnum respectively ...

38 Colt’s heeled ... 44 Army revolvers to a five-shot .46 Short Rimfire cartridge. Called “Thin Plate Conversions,” these Army pistols came in three models, in rimfire or centerfire.