Single Action Army (SAA), Model P, Peacemaker—whatever you want to call it—the revolver introduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in 1873 has one of the most recognizable ...

In 1873, Samuel Colt’s Colt Patent Firearms, looking to reinvent the way it produced revolvers, made a gun: the Colt Single-Action Army. It would go on to become the standard-issue sidearm for ...

The firearms historian Hal Herring has described the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, produced from 1873 on, as ‘arguably the most successful handgun ever made … simple, strong and reliable beyond ...