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• M3 Grease GunFor sale

  The M3 'Grease Gun' was America's Sten: a .45 caliber submachine gun of stamped steel and welded seams, designed in 1942 to replace the superb but slow-and-costly Thompson with something a car plant could stamp out by the hundred thousand. Ugly, slow-firing, and utterly practical, it armed tankers and GIs from Normandy to Korea and Vietnam — and stayed in U.S. armored vehicles until the 1990s, outliving the Thompson it replaced by half a century.

• Remington Model 1875For sale

  The Remington Model 1875 was Remington's answer to the Colt Peacemaker: a big single-action Army revolver in .44 and .45 calibers, built on the frame lineage of the company's famous percussion Armys and instantly known by the distinctive web of metal under its ejector housing. It lost the Army contract race to Colt but armed frontier lawmen, outlaws — Frank James carried one — and foreign contracts, and it stands today as the great 'other' sixgun of the Old West.

• Winchester Model 1866For sale

  The Winchester Model 1866 — the Yellow Boy, for its gleaming brass receiver — was the first rifle to carry the Winchester name: the Civil War Henry improved with a wooden forearm and Nelson King's loading gate, which together turned a fragile war rifle into the frontier's first practical repeater. It armed settlers, Native warriors, and foreign armies from the Bozeman Trail to the Ottoman trenches at Plevna, and it founded the lever-action dynasty that followed.

• Winchester Model 1892For sale

  The Winchester Model 1892 was John Browning's compact masterpiece of the lever-action line: the pistol-caliber Winchester rebuilt around his locking-block action, slimmer, stronger, and faster than the toggle-link 1873 it replaced. Over a million were made for the world's saddle scabbards and trap lines — and Hollywood made it immortal, putting the '92 in nearly every Western ever filmed, usually standing in for rifles a generation older than itself — the public's image of the frontier repeater is, anachronistically, mostly this gun.

• Winchester Model 1873For sale

  The Winchester Model 1873 is the archetypal lever-action of the American West: an iron-then-steel-framed repeater feeding centerfire .44-40 cartridges from a tube magazine as fast as a hand could work the lever. Sharing its ammunition with the Colt revolver on the same belt, produced in the hundreds of thousands as rifle, carbine, and musket, it armed ranchers, railroads, lawmen, and outlaws alike and earned the marketing title history decided to keep: the gun that won the West.

• Thompson Submachine GunFor sale

  The Thompson was America's first submachine gun: a .45 ACP automatic designed as a trench broom for a war that ended before it shipped. Instead it found infamy in Prohibition Chicago, fame in Marine hands in the banana wars, and vindication by the million in the Second World War, where simplified M1 versions armed sergeants, raiders, and paratroopers of every Allied nation. No firearm carries a bigger spread of reputations — gangster icon and GI workhorse in one.