1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

No other design in the history of handguns has had equal impact since Samuel Colt developed the first practical revolver. Browning's success came from two strengths. He possessed an inherent ...

The Colt New Service was produced from 1898 to 1941 and was the first large-frame revolver made into a snub-nosed version, adopted by none other than F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. Colt’s Anaconda ...