rather than design an entirely new firearm, was to lengthen and strengthen the already-existing Model 1873. This meant beefing up the receiver, barrel, stock and fore-end—hence the entire gun ...

See the details in our "American Rifleman Television" I Have This Old Gun segment above ... Colt had a number of names for the same basic design. There was the Police Positive Target, chambered ...

This valuable artifact, a bronze cannon or “wall gun,” was recovered from a site ... the cannon is a “pristine historical specimen,” with its design reflecting typical firearms from ...

and borrowed heavily from Walther’s design. Internally, the Model 39 was very similar, to the point where magazines could ...