"One stretch of dominance that was nearly as total, if somewhere in between New England’s in the AFC East and Rome’s in Europe and the Mediterranean littoral, was that of the medium-frame, double-action revolver, which reigned supreme in the United States for something like a century.
If we define the Age of the Medium-Frame Revolver as running from the first adoption of Colt’s Model 1889 by the U.S. Military to the abandonment of the Smith & Wesson Model 65 and Ruger Service-Six by the NYPD in favor of semi-automatic pistols, that’s a solid 105 years of duty."
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