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The Colt 1851 Navy is arguably the most iconic revolver of the 19th century. Its cylinder is roll-engraved with the Battle of Campeche — a naval engagement fought in 1843 between the Texas Navy and the Mexican fleet — a detail that gave the model its "Navy" name despite never being issued to sailors. Wild Bill Hickok carried a pair of ivory-handled 1851 Navies butt-forward until the day he was shot holding "the dead man's hand" in Deadwood, 1876. Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Richard Francis Burton all chose this revolver as their personal sidearm.

The Uberti reproduction we offer retains the engraved cylinder, brass frame, and octagonal 7.5-inch barrel of the original — chambered in modern .38 Special for reliability and recoil comfort. The complete Western rig shown here — hand-tooled leather holster with sunflower motif, full cartridge belt, and rawhide leg tie — is a faithful reproduction of a gunfighter's working kit from the 1870s frontier.

Based on the Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker" of 1873 — the gun that won the West — this Uberti in .357 Magnum combines 19th-century aesthetics with genuine stopping power. Wyatt Earp carried a Colt SAA at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone on October 26, 1881. Theodore Roosevelt wore an engraved, ivory-gripped SAA during the charge up San Juan Hill. General George S. Patton carried two ivory-handled SAAs throughout WWII — one of which he used to kill a Mexican bandit in 1916.

The .357 Magnum cartridge, developed by Elmer Keith and Smith & Wesson in 1934, was the most powerful handgun round in the world for two decades. Firing a .357 Magnum through a Cattleman frame connects you to the entire arc of American gunfighting — from the dusty streets of Tombstone to the concrete canyons of Prohibition-era Chicago.

The Winchester Model 1866 — nicknamed the "Yellow Boy" for its brass receiver — was the first truly reliable lever-action repeating rifle. It could fire 17 rounds as fast as a shooter could work the lever, at a time when every other rifle on the frontier was single-shot. The Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn in 1876 reportedly had more Winchesters than Custer's 7th Cavalry, who were still issued single-shot Springfield trapdoors. The Ottoman Empire bought 50,000 of them; Emperor Maximilian's forces fielded them in Mexico; and Texas Rangers depended on them well into the 1890s.

Its combination of brass receiver, polished American walnut stock, and blued octagonal barrel makes it one of the most beautiful rifles ever built. Jimmy Stewart's 1950 film "Winchester '73" was built entirely around the mythology of this rifle.

John Browning's Model 1911 served the US military for 74 uninterrupted years through two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War — arguably the greatest handgun design in history. Sergeant Alvin York used one to kill six German soldiers in the Argonne Forest in 1918. In every WWII infantry squad, the 1911 was the officer's sidearm and the tanker's last line of defense.

The Gold Cup Trophy, introduced by Colt in 1957, is the match-grade competition variant — hand-fitted slide, adjustable target sights, flat mainspring housing, and a crisp 4-pound trigger built for the Camp Perry national matches. This specimen — stainless with G10 blue grips and a compensator port — is a modern Series 70 faithful to the 1957 original. It is the pistol you feel the moment you pick it up: balanced, heavy, precise, utterly serious.

The Walther PPK was introduced in 1931 as the Polizeipistole Kriminal — the world's first semi-automatic designed specifically for concealed carry by plainclothes detectives. Its double-action/single-action trigger with slide-mounted decocking safety was a genuine innovation that virtually every modern pistol still uses today. In April 1945, Adolf Hitler reportedly used a PPK in the Berlin Führerbunker.

In 1956, a Scottish firearms expert named Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote a fan letter to Ian Fleming telling him James Bond's Beretta .25 was "a lady's gun" and suggested the Walther PPK instead. Fleming wrote Boothroyd into "Dr. No" as the Bond-verse armorer "Q" and rearmed 007 with the PPK. Boothroyd's personal PPK now lives in the Royal Armouries, London. From Sean Connery in 1962 to Daniel Craig in 2021, every Bond has carried this gun across 25 films and six decades — the most famous character-weapon pairing in cinema history. The .22 LR variant we offer delivers the identical feel and DA/SA trigger experience with near-zero recoil.

John Browning designed the Model 1906 as the first truly pocketable semi-automatic pistol — striker-fired, hammerless, vest-pocket sized. Over one million were produced by FN in Liège, Belgium between 1906 and 1959. On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip used an FN Model 1910 — the slightly larger sibling of this pistol — to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. That single shot triggered World War I and reshaped the 20th century.

The 6.35mm pistol was the discreet sidearm of diplomats, spies, assassins, and gangsters alike — slipped into waistcoats, evening purses, and officer greatcoats across two world wars. Firing one today is firing a piece of engineering that literally shaped history.

The Smith & Wesson Airweight is the modern heir to a revolver dynasty that began in 1899. Built on the iconic J-Frame with an aluminum-alloy receiver, it weighs just 14.30 ounces — light enough to forget in a jacket pocket, yet chambered for .38 Special +P for genuine stopping power. Introduced in the 1950s, the Airweight line (Models 37, 38, 442, 637, 642) became the definitive plainclothes and back-up revolver for the FBI, US Marshals, NYPD and LAPD detectives for over half a century.

With its 1.88-inch snub barrel, five-shot cylinder, and shrouded hammer variants, the Airweight is the quintessential concealed-carry revolver — the shoulder-holster piece of every Hollywood detective from Bogart to Gene Hackman. Firing it teaches you the fundamentals of double-action revolver shooting in the smallest possible package: snappy recoil, deliberate trigger pull, and the honest connection to a century of American law-enforcement history.

Introduced by Walther in 2002, the G22 is one of the only true bull-pup rimfire rifles ever mass-produced. The action and magazine sit behind the trigger, giving it a compact 724mm overall length while retaining a full 508mm barrel — the same barrel length as a traditional rifle, but eight inches shorter overall. Its fully ambidextrous controls — bolt handle, magazine release, safety, and shell ejection can all be switched left or right — were revolutionary for the class.

The G22 is the ideal first rifle experience: negligible recoil, .22 LR ammunition, and the exact ergonomics of a modern tactical carbine. Many of our guests pick it up thinking they'll shoot it for five minutes and end up putting two hundred rounds through it.

William B. Ruger and Alexander Sturm founded Sturm, Ruger & Co. in 1949 in a rented machine shop in Southport, Connecticut. Their first product was the Ruger Standard .22 pistol — a clean-sheet design inspired by the silhouette of a captured Japanese Nambu Ruger had disassembled during WWII and the internal layout of the German Luger. It sold 25,000 units in its first year and launched one of the most successful firearms companies in American history.

Seventy-five years and four generations later, the Mark IV is the gold standard of .22 target pistols — the tool of choice for Olympic-level bullseye competitors, Appleseed instructors, and generations of first-time shooters. The push-button takedown on this generation finally solved the notoriously complex disassembly that had plagued Mark I through Mark III owners since 1949. Its fixed barrel geometry and match trigger make it one of the most accurate pistols you can buy at any price.

Brügger & Thomet, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Thun, Switzerland, is today the world's premier manufacturer of silenced and precision special operations weapons. They supply Swiss Army Special Forces, German GSG 9, French GIGN, British SAS, and US SOCOM units across Europe and beyond. When US Army Special Operations Command needed a replacement for their aging MP5 submachine guns in 2019, they selected the APC9 Pro — beating out HK, Sig, and CZ in a rigorous competitive trial.

The APC9 Pro uses a proprietary hydraulic-delayed blowback action that produces the smoothest recoil of any 9mm PDW in production. It feeds from standard Glock magazines — any Glock 17/18/19 mag will function — and its receiver accepts full NATO rail accessories. This is the most technically advanced firearm in our collection: the direct modern evolution of the 150-year engineering arc that begins with the 1851 Navy at Card 01. Firing it is the end of the story — the state of the art in human handheld firepower.