** 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. ** Blackpowder firearms have long ...

If there's one shooting event that seems to lack competition and interest at blackpowder shoots, it's the pistol match. Blackpowder pistols and cap and ball revolvers are lots of fun to shoot, but ...

The years immediately following the American Civil War presented an interesting dilemma for the Colt Patent Firearms Co. Its reliable percussion revolvers had been the most popular military sidearms ...

Bill Samuels Jr., former chief executive of Kentucky-based Maker’s Mark, has a sentimental attachment to a gun once owned by outlaw Frank James, brother of Jesse James. The .36-caliber 1851 Navy Colt ...