The most desirable of the “snake guns,” as Colt likes to call them, is back. After a couple of decades of no new sixguns with the name “Python” marked on the side of the barrel—there ...

6" barrel Colt Python with blued (top ... and even managed to geezer my way through their academy. As was the case with most of my fellow deputies, I used S&W revolvers. I grew familiar with ...

One of seven mid-20th century Colt handguns named after snakes, the Python was introduced in 1955. The Python was a beefy, all steel and wood revolver chambered in .357 Magnum.

I find it rare for a gun to possess intrinsic warmth, but the Colt Python 3-inch model reintroduced this year has just that. I don’t mean warmth produced by the combustion of smokeless powder—I mean a ...