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This article, "Civil War Remingtons," appeared originally in the November 2003 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman ...

To guard against light trigger pulls and keep tear gas rounds where police officers loaded them, these unique revolvers came with large manual safeties. The Webley-Fosbery was designed with target ...

One of the most popular revolvers in production, the Smith & Wesson 686 revolver is a medium (“L frame”) revolver chambered in the powerful .357 Magnum caliber. The 686 is designed to handle the ...

One of the biggest advancements in firearms was repeating firearms. The revolver was the first successful repeating handgun, and even today, the basic design has remained the same. A revolving ...

Smith & Wesson's decision to eliminate internal locks from their revolvers stems from a long-standing criticism among gun owners. Introduced in the early 2000s, these locks were often seen as ...

The Frontier West was nothing if not a place of opportunity. It offered an unlimited number of ways to perish including disease (a big favorite), thirst, starvation, weather, livestock, serpents, ...