Bob Dincau of Willmar displays a vintage Hubley Colt .45 cap gun from his collection of toy pistols Saturday at the two-day Willmar Gun Show in the Civic Center’s Cardinal Arena.

The collector of antique guns also picked up a Remingtonball and cap revolver belonging to Earp's lawman grandfather for $12,000 and the vast archive of three-time Earp author Glenn Boyer for $55,000.

If all that nonsense hadn’t happened in the 1870s with the Colt SAA and the Schofield and the drama over the .45 Colt and the .45 Schofield, we may have never gotten the .45 ACP that we know today.

Perhaps one of the most iconic guns in Colt’s arsenal is the Colt .45 Peacemaker. ... .36 Cap and ball, 5-shot rotating cylinder; Model 1862 Police. Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons.

On May 18th at 3:00 p.m. ET, online (guns.richmondauctions.com), via phone, and in person, Richmond Auctions will present to the world “The Sweetheart Al Capone’s Iconic Colt .45 Gun “The ...