Small handguns were convenient weapons because they could be easily carried on horseback, and a person armed with a pair of pistols could shoot off one and then the other, getting two shots off before needing to reload. Attempts were made as early as...

A firearm, usually a handgun, with a cylinder having several chambers so arranged as to rotate around an axis and be discharged successively by the same firing...

A type of pistol with a revolving cylinder in the breech chambered to hold several cartridges so that the revolver may be fired in succession without reloading (Figure...

rEVOLVEr (2004) is the fourth studio album release by Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted. This album merges the raw blueprint of their self-titled debut with the slightly more refined and produced sound evident on their subsequent albums. After...

Revolver dir. Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie's Revolver wants nothing less than to bring to an end a recent era of crime cinema. (That era began in the early 1990s and was dominated by Quentin Tfcrantino and John Woo. Ritchie's first feature film,...

By Irv Slifkin SONY Street: March 18 Prebook: now > Guy Ritchie's return to crime stories is better than the buzz would have you believe. Produced by French action filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita , The Professional...

The rock band Velvet Revolver has canceled a tour of Japan after authorities refused to give its members visas, possibly because of previous run-ins with the law.The band, which features former members of Guns N' Roses and the Stone Temple Pilots, had been looking to...

Former President George H.W. Bush got his World War II service revolver back Wednesday, 60 years after giving it to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him when his plane was shot down over the Pacific Ocean.Bush donated the revolver to the National...