Before the famous M2 Browning Machine Gun, there was the Colt Model 1924 Automatic Machine Gun. Here's a look at an original operating manual for the gun from the American Rifleman Tech Files.

The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, or .45 ACP as it is commonly known, is fairly controversial. Invented in 1905 by prolific firearms designer John Moses Browning, the .45 ACP was the standard ...

A reader who read my comments on the French Model 1935A pistol commented on its relationship to the intentionally mysterious cartridge used in the Pedersen device. The existence of the Pedersen ...

The sergeant, in the split second before his impalement, drew his Colt 1911 .45-caliber automatic pistol. If he’d drawn a six-shooter, you would never have heard of Sergeant York.

Famous for making the pistols carried by British secret agent James Bond, German gun-maker Walther is releasing its PPQ handgun chambered in the American .45-caliber ACP cartridge.

Officers with the department’s Narcotics and Organized Crime Squad found the Colt .32-caliber pistol inside a white plastic bag that was stashed in a pile of leaves behind a boarded up building ...

Key point: There are more choices of .45 ACP pistols than ever before. The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, or .45 ACP as it is commonly known, is fairly controversial. Invented in 1905 by ...

The cartridge designation is often called the 7.65mm Browning, 7.65 x 17 or the ,32 ACP (my favorite, since it stands for Automatic Colt Pistol). .32 Auto guns typically are double action only ...

The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, also designed by John Browning, was developed in response to the ineffectiveness of the U.S. Army’s then sidearm, the Colt M1892 revolver.

Joseph Foley carried a Colt .32-caliber Model M-32 automatic handgun when he patrolled the streets of Manchester in the 1920s.The gun had a special panel in the back of the butt that, if it was ...

The first is the .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver and the second is the Gamo PT-80 C02 semi-automatic air pistol (which has been described as a BB gun), according to court records.

It's been 30 years since the Marine Corps fielded a 1911 Colt, opting instead for a Springfield manufactured version of the 45 caliber pistol. Starting this year though, Marine special operators ...