A pistol owned by British explorer Captain James Cook, who first claimed Australia for Britain nearly two and a half centuries ago, will go on the auction block next month in Melbourne.

This week on American Rifleman Television, we take a look behind the scenes at Colt, examine the Winchester Wildcat in .22 LR and look back at the history of the British Brunswick rifle.

Springfield Armory developed the Model 1855 Percussion Pistol-Carbine for use as a pistol on horseback, or as a carbine on foot. The .58 caliber muzzle loader featured an attachable shoulder stock and ...

Physical Description: This .45 caliber muzzle-loading smoothbore two shot percussion pistol was made by the Union Knife Company of Naugatuck, CT for J. P. Lindsay. Its superposed loads were fired in ...

This is the single shot percussion M1842 pistol that was stolen from the Springfield Armory and will be returned to the collection.

Flintlock pistols of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were eventually replaced by percussion cap firearms, which ignited gun powder with an explosive chemical compound rather than a piece of ...