BROOMHANDLE OF THE NEW WEST
May 03, 2022
3 minutes
BY GEORGE LAYMAN
mong aficionados of Old West firearms the handgun that first pops to mind is the .45-caliber Colt Single Action Army (aka “Peacemaker”), or perhaps the Colt 1851 Navy, followed by a host of percussion and cartridge revolvers from a score of American manufacturers. By the turn of the 20th century, however, foreign-made revolvers had also made their mark in the states and territories west of the Missouri. Notable among them were Britain’s double- and single-action Webleys and ubiquitous Belgian-made copies of the double-action
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