The Duke has his new Smith & Wesson No. 3 in the holster. Wiki commons While the Colt Peacemaker won out in the icon status department, the Schofield certainly has a firm place in gun history. The ...

T he Smith & Wesson Model 39, inspired by the German Walther P-38, became the first American nine-millimeter pistol embraced ...

Patton was known to carry an ivory-handled Smith & Wesson Model 27 during World War II, chambered in the gut-busting .357 Magnum – at that time, the world’s very first magnum pistol cartridge.