If the appeals court’s reasoning against California's open-carry ban is applied to mainstream laws such as background checks ...

Back in muzzleloading days, guns designed to be held and fired with one hand were called pistols. With the advent of the revolver—a repeating handgun with a revolving cylinder—this didn’t really ...

“Okay, so this is what collectors would call a Webley Wedge framed pistol. Now this was made in England. About 1850 to the ...

On October 26, 1881, shots rang out at the O.K. Corral. Within the first 30 seconds of the shootout, three members of the Clanton gang were killed. Men on both sides, including Wyatt Earp, Doc ...

For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt's most notable ...

There are a few basic types of pistols, but many variations. Since the first time somebody figured out that they could propel an object out the end of a crudely-fashioned iron tube by igniting a ...