The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.

But waiting in the wings was the first lever action rifle as we know it, the Henry repeater. In 1855, a shirtmaker named Oliver Winchester bought a controlling interest in the Volcanic Repeating ...

Winchester Repeating Arms has long billed the Model 1873 as “the gun that won the West,” and in this case, they may just be right. When the West really was wild, the Model 73 lever gun was the ...

The Browning brothers succeeded by designing what was to become the most popular repeating rimfire rifle Winchester ever produced, the Model 1890 slide-action repeater, a slim, lightweight, ...

In becoming “The Gun That Won The West,” the Winchester ... in so doing, launched the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. into everlasting fame. Unfortunately, the Winchester ’73 had one notable ...

Phil Massaro dives into the history and performance of the .33 Winchester.

The next shot ensured that he really didn’t mind. In 1866, the New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms. They introduced an updated and improved Henry-style rifle called the Winchester Model ...

With barely any formal education, this determined New Englander rose to found the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, maker of one of the first repeating rifles the world had ever seen. The Winchester, ...

Once the U.S. Repeating Arms plant closes March 31, the only new rifles carrying the famous Winchester name will be the modern, high-end models produced in Belgium, Japan and Portugal. The older ...

Tabloid legend holds that Sarah Winchester, of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company dynasty ... that evoke school shootings and other forms of gun violence. "We certainly were aware of those ...

According to Morgan, Utah-based Winchester Repeating Arms, 720,610 of the rifles were manufactured between 1873 and 1916. In 1882 alone, more than 25,000 of the 1873 models were made. The gun sold ...

It was a moment frozen in time – an 1873 Winchester repeating rifle propped up against the trunk of a juniper tree exactly where its owner had left it over a hundred years ago. Eva Jensen ...