** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** "Colt kind of dragged their heels ...

To understand what a DA pistol is, you first need a general understanding of handguns. There are two types: revolvers and pistols. A revolver is a handgun that has a cylinder with multiple chambers ...

Bitten by the cowboy handgun bug early on—and influenced by no less an innovator than Elmer Keith—the author finds that, in ...

Say “Old West six-gun” and most folks picture a single-action Colt on a cavalryman’s hip. That image isn’t wrong – but it’s incomplete. The late 1800s were an arms-race of ideas, and double-action (DA ...

Rifle shooters are persnickety and opinionated—and they should be. The task of sending a small piece of metal faster than the speed of sound to a precise point of impact demands a certain kind of ...