six-shooter

Perhaps he preferred a stylish single-shot to blazing away with a six-shooter.

Smith & Wesson made its name with handguns, such as Dirty Harry’s “Feeling Lucky?” six-shooter.

Fortunately, the heroes’ weapons — like a flamethrower and an electrified gauntlet — are more powerful than your standard six-shooter.

Her John Wayne gallops stiff-backed on an elongated red carousel pony, a silver six-shooter held high.

Legends of pistol-packing preachers who trekked through the West with, as one of them said, “Bible in pocket, gun in hand” permanently joined evangelism to the six-shooter in some corners of the American imagination.