Known for his notorious litigiousness, Samuel Colt would have likely hit the roof, had he seen this copy of the famous Colt Navy revolver. We don't know if we ever did, but what we do know is that this beautifully crafted weapon was heavily influenced by one of history's most recognisable designs.

Made in secrecy in the Enfield's Royal Small Arms Factory, this multi-purpose firearm has a intriguing history and design, making it a suitable addition to What is this Weapon.

Inspired by our friends at C&Rsenal, Jonathan has rooted through our expansive collection to find different patterns of the Webley Improved Government Revolver, including it's very first iteration.

Part of the 1968 Gun Control Act in the US put restrictions on importation of small handguns. These rules intended to protect US manufacturers and prevent people from having access to particularly inexpensive and concealable firearms, and these rules remain in place today. In particular, revolver...

The Landstad Model 1900 is a magazine-fed, semiautomatic revolver designed by Norwegian Halvard Folkestad Landstad, who lived in Kristiana (now called Oslo). He designed the gun on his own dime, and presented it to military trials in 1901, which it failed miserably. The gun has a six-round detach...

A few weeks ago, Jonathan as he often does was perusing the web and saw a White Star Line Webley revolver in the collection of a fellow museum.

"That's a very cool thing," he thought to himself. "I wonder if we have one of those?"

As it turns out we do. We know what you're all wondering: Which ...

Steinel Ammunition has started making a rather niche new product, but one that I think is quite convenient: .45 ACP downloaded to .455 Webley pressure. This is for use in Webley revolvers that were shaved to use moon clips and .45 ACP when they were imported. This is a common modification done by...

In this episode Mike and Budi try out the second 6 of 11 craptastic mostly-Euro revolvers on the range:

French Mle. 1892, 8mm
S&W 2nd Model Hand Ejector, .455 Webley
Nagant 1895, 7.62mm
Dutch East Indies revolver, 9.4mm
Rast & Gasser, 8mm
M1889 Bodeo, 10.4mm

Part 1 Here: https://youtu.be/7-IGGm...

When the United States entered World War One, it had a significant shortfall in military handguns. The M1911 pistol production was expanded as much as possible, but more guns were needed. Both Colt and Smith & Wesson adapted revolver designs to Army standard .45 ACP ammunition, and both were acce...

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Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier & Artemas Wheeler reveals the first attempt to put a multi-shot firearm in the hands of the common soldier and sportsman. This novel device—patented in America in 1818 by A...

In this episode Mike and Budi try out the first 5 of 11 craptastic mostly-Euro revolvers on the range:

Swiss M1878 10.4mm
Swiss M1882 7.5mm
Webley Mk.VI .455
Enfield No.2 Mk.1* .380/200 / .38 S&W
An odd private purchase Reichsrevolver

The Rupertus Patent Pistol Manufacturing Company was founded in Philadelphia by Bavarian-born Jacob Rupertus. The company made a variety of derringers, pepperboxes, and revolvers and today we are looking at an 8-shot, .22 rimfire pepperbox patented by Rupertus in 1864. It’s a tiny civilian pocket...

The "Tom Thumb" is a tiny .22 rimfire revolver made in Belgium by an unknown shop and imported into the US to be sold by the Daly Arms Company of New York. These are antique guns, probably made in the 1870s or 1880s, chambered for the original black powder .22 rimfire cartridge. There are other s...

Today I took a Model 1883 Reichsrevolver out to the monthly BackUp Gun Match. This is an 1894-manufactured gun (made at the Erfurt Arsenal). It is a single action only, six-shot revolver chambered for the 10.6mm German Ordnance cartridge. The first type of Reichsrevolver was adopted by the young ...

Colt has released seven different revolvers named after snakes, and they have become a popular niche collection for many people. The Python is by far the best known, but several others are very rare. One of these is the Colt Viper, of which only a few thousand were made and only in 1977. The Vipe...

This series is all about weaponry wrong turns and the Dimancea pistols are prime examples that begs the question, "Who thought this would be a good idea?".

In an attempt to improve on the already venerable revolver design, this Romanian take is as striking as it is confounding.

Today we're taking a look at a Smith & Wesson Chief's Special, but not just any Chief's Special. This is serial number 29, factory engraved and gifted to Chief Edward Boyko of Passaic New Jersey in 1950. When S&W introduced the new revolver to compete with Colt's Detective Special, they simply ca...

The revolver we are looking at today is a 9mm pinfire revolver adopted for the Papal Gendarmerie in 1868. At that time, the Papal States controlled roughly the same amount of territory as Switzerland today, and had its own armed forced for internal security - the Papal Gendarmerie. The Papal Stat...

With only around 15 in existence, Jonathan gets up close with the original type of rotating revolver – the manually rotating carbine revolver.

Made nearly a century prior to the development and popularisation of self-rotating systems by Elisha Collier, Artemis Wheeler, and then Samuel Colt, th...

This week, we received a Russian Nagant Revolver equipped with a silencer. Was this revolver used in a plot to assassinate the "Big Three" during WW2?

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Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball The idea of this video came from my friend Tamás Szabó. I know it is not as serious as my other videos, but sometimes I need some freetime as well :). If you are a western enthusiast, you'll like this! So enjoy! All scenes shot by me, edite...

That's a neat little revolver with a very accurate broach rifled bore. Excellent for tarteg shooting for the one who love the Old West feeling.

Adopted by the British Army around the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, the Webley MkIV saw action through to the Great War. The last of the 4-inch barrel Webley's the MkIV proved to be a decent sidearm for both officers and enlisted specialists like gunners, NCOs and trumpeters. Ch...

Watch latest videos, sometimes even early releases! Sign up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkbJYn [or] slateblackindustries (dot) com 👉 Newsletter The Webley Mark VI service revolver... perhaps one of the most iconic British revolvers of World War I. The mere sight conjures up images of a ...