Troopers say an employee found the Pietta 1851 Confederate Navy Revolver in a trash can in the parking lot of the Walmart at 1270 York Road in Straban Township.

Police in Gettysburg said they discovered a Pietta 1851 Confederate Navy revolver after being called to the Walmart located at 1270 York Rd. in Adams County, Straban Township, at 5:14 p.m. Tuesday.

Uberti USA’s 1851 Navy Conversion revolver is based on the later Richards-Mason-pattern conversions, which were around while Wild Bill was alive. The loading arm typically found on cap-and-ball ...

The 1851 Navy soon found a ready market. Models exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London that year, alongside Dragoon and Pocket revolvers, were in such demand that Colt later established an ...

The “Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber,” as the 1851 Navy was originally called, was Colt’s first practical revolver, coming after its 4-lb., 8-oz., .44-cal. Dragoon and the less ...

Object Details maker Griswold & Gunnison Description This six-shot .36 caliber revolver was made under contract to the Confederate government. It is a brass framed copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver.

A Civil War revolver was found by a Walmart employee while changing the trash in the parking lot in Straban Township, Adams County on Tuesday evening. The gun found was identified as a Pietta 1851 ...