The .38 Automatic Colt Pistol (ACP) was the first American pistol cartridge designed to use smokeless powder. It fired a 130-gr. jacketed bullet at a velocity of 1,260 f.p.s. and a muzzle energy ...

The .38 Special was developed in 1898 as an improvement over the .38 Long Colt, ... Because it was going to be used in not-yet-as-popular semi-auto pistol designs ... .38 SPECIAL AND 9MM PRESSURE ...

While the diameters of the .38 Short Colt, .38 Special, and .357 Magnum are identical, they differ in length, but only slightly — just enough to not be backward compatible. You can shoot .38 SC in a ...

Colt factory letter of authenticity, dated April 7, 2000, documenting the sterile Colt 1911 .38 Super Automatic pistol. “Colt, by means of this letter, is proud to authenticate the manufacture ...

The current generation of Colt Firearms includes guns such as the Navy Mk 12 Special Purpose Rifle. Introduced in 2002, this designated marksman rifle is chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO rounds like ...

The Colt .45 and .38 Special pistols that Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker carried when they died could each fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. National Bonnie And Clyde's Guns, Other Items Go ...

The family of late sheriff Sam Dunfee donated two firearms that date back to World War II -- a Marlin Model 1897 Lever Action Rifle and a Colt Army Special .38 pistol. Dunfee served as sheriff ...

I can only hope the .38 Special wouldn’t fall into obscurity in the foreseeable future. The fact that it’s still even relevant a full century and two decades after it came out is a testament ...