Also for sale is Texas native and gangster Bonnie Parker’s Colt .25-caliber “pocket pistol” taken from her purse shortly after she and Clyde Barrow were killed by lawmen in a shootout near ...

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 ...

He designed the .25 ACP (6.35×16 mm SR) semi-rimmed pistol cartridge for what would become the M1905 Vest Pocket pistol. It was literally designed to fit in a business man's vest pocket, the one ...

Looking at his other famous handguns: the Colt 1903 Hammerless was in .380 ACP, the Colt Woodsman was a .22 LR, and the posthumously completed Hi-Power was, of course, in 9mm. The handguns he created ...