To understand what a DA pistol is, you first need a general understanding of handguns. There are two types: revolvers and pistols. A revolver is a handgun that has a cylinder with multiple chambers ...

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The Governor is a double action/single action revolver. Under normal circumstances, it can be cocked and fired with a single long, fairly heavy pull of the trigger—a so-called double action operating ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Unlike modern revolvers, the Single Action Army is a single-action revolver: that is, the hammer must be cocked between shots to advance the cylinder to a fresh, ...

Call them the three double-action revolvers every Old West cowboy “owned,” if only in the shared culture of the frontier. They were the other six-guns of the West – feisty, flawed, fast – and they ...