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Freedom Arms revolvers with a Colt 1873P above. Freedom Arms Belt-Buckle Revolver, .22LR, on display at the Cody Firearms Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody, Wyoming. Freedom Arms is a Freedom, Wyoming based firearm manufacturing company, known for producing powerful single-action revolvers. The company was founded in 1978 by Wayne ...
The .45 Colt (11.43×33mmR), often called the .45 Long Colt, is a rimmed, straight-walled, handgun cartridge dating to 1872. ... Freedom Arms Models 83 and 97, and ...
The Freedom Arms Model 83 single-action revolver chambered in .454 Casull was introduced in 1983. [12] This model is still manufactured today as the Model 83. [13] A number of variants upon the Model 83 have been produced, all with five-shot cylinders. The first was a .45 Colt in February 1986, followed closely by a .44 Magnum version. [14]
The design is a lengthened and structurally improved .45 Colt case. [5] The wildcat cartridge went mainstream when Freedom Arms brought a single action five-shot revolver chambered in .454 Casull to the retail firearms market in 1983. Ruger followed in 1997, chambering its Super Redhawk in this caliber.
Colt Army Model 1860: Colt's Manufacturing Company: Paper-wrapped.44 caliber.44 Colt: 6 United States: 1860-1873 Colt Army Special / Colt Official Police: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle.32-20.38 Special.41 Long Colt: 6 United States: 1908-1969 Colt Buntline: Colt's Manufacturing Company.45 Colt: 6 United States: 1957 ...
The .45 ACP (not to be confused with .45 Colt) cartridge is a very popular caliber due to its low velocity and relatively high stopping power. This caliber is associated most with the Colt M1911, logically, as ACP literally means 'Automatic Colt Pistol'. However, there are many more guns and variations on the M1911 that are chambered in .45 ACP.
This magnum revolver cartridge, a lengthened .45 Colt, was developed by Dick Casull and Jack Fulmer in 1957 as a high-powered big game hunting round. For many years, the small Wyoming manufacturer Freedom Arms was the only substantial maker of guns for the cartridge.
The FP-45 Liberator is a handgun manufactured by the United States military during World War II for use by resistance forces in occupied territories. The Liberator was never issued to American or other Allied troops, and there are few documented instances of the weapon being used for its intended purpose; this was compounded by the intended recipients – irregulars and resistance fighters ...