Archive for handguns

Angus McClellan’s Top 10 Handguns

Editors’ picks for the handguns that changed the world.

August 19, 2009

Aaron Carter’s Top 10 Handguns

Editors’ picks for the handguns that changed the world.

August 19, 2009

Glenn Gilbert’s Top 10 Handguns

Editors’ picks for the handguns that changed the world.

August 19, 2009

Brian Sheetz’s Top 10 Handguns

Editors’ picks for the handguns that changed the world.

August 19, 2009

Mark Keefe’s Top 10 Handguns

Editors’ picks for the handguns that changed the world.

August 19, 2009

AR's Top 10 Handguns

Our choices for the best and most significant handguns on the past century.

August 19, 2009

Beretta Model 1935 Pistol

This gold-washed Beretta Model 1935 pistol was a presentation to General Yeager by a Cuban minister of defense following a "good will" flight with Yeager.

August 11, 2009

The Semmerling Pistol

The Semmerling line of manual repeaters included the world's smallest and most powerful multi-shot pistols ever offered.

August 11, 2009

Smith & Wesson’s Schofield Revolver

The Schofield was a top-break gun, popping open in the middle and allowing for simultaneous ejection of spent cartridges or quick reloading.

August 11, 2009

The Luger Pistol

Familiar to most devotees of war films, the Luger pistol, with its curved grip and toggle action, remains a favored military collectors' item.

August 11, 2009

Buffalo Bill's Colt Revolver

The most illustrious owner of this scroll-engraved Colt with serial number 1 was the larger-than-life frontiersman called "Buffalo Bill."

August 11, 2009

Magnum, p.i.'s Colt Pistol

The 9 mm chambering for this prop gun was selected due to better functioning with easily obtainable 9 mm blank cartridges.

August 11, 2009

John Wesley Hardin's Colt Revolver

Hardin usually carried more than one Colt revolver, as reloading a cap-and-ball handgun under fire was not a quick or easily completed task.

August 11, 2009

John Wayne's Remington Revolver

One of the Duke's sidearms in "The Big Trail" was a nickel-finished Remington cartridge conversion revolver, embellished with "diamond" file cuts on the barrel.

August 11, 2009

Harper Creigh's Colt Single-Action Revolver

These .44-caliber revolvers are usually carried in holsters emblazoned with gold and silver conchos depicting the SASS logo.

August 05, 2009