This brother of the Model 19 is great for hunting and plinking. Last summer, I bought a Smith & Wesson Model 686 .357 Magnum revolver, and ever since, I’ve been happily shooting it at the range and in ...

in part due to the use of aluminum. The new pistol, called the Model 59, hit the U.S. domestic market in 1971. The Odyssey of the Smith & Wesson Model 39/59, from its Germanic origins to the gun ...

FBI SWAT purchased roughly 800 Smith & Wesson Model 459s on a trial run circa 1984. For the overwhelming majority of the twentieth century, i.e., well before those upstarts Glock and SIG Sauer came ...