Source: ATF P 5300.11 · Curios or Relics List · Jan 1972 – Apr 20253,573 entries · 4 sections
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Colt 150th Anniversary SAA Buntline

Section II: curio or relic, still subject to the Gun Control Act

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11 · APRIL 2025 EDITION · SECTION II · VERBATIM · PDF P. 4 ↗

Colt, 150th Anniversary single action army buntline, cal. .45.

What this entry requires

  • ATF REQUIRESYour firearm is this edition: “150th Anniversary single action army buntline”
  • INFOATF states no date; production was about 1986.

Editorial facts · Our research

Country
United States
Manufacturer
Colt's Manufacturing Co.
Type
Pistol²
Action
Other
Caliber
.45
Made
1986production; ATF states no date¹
Service
Commercial
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Source

Official wording
ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section II · PDF p. 4 ↗ · ATF original ↗
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Editorial facts
Confidence: Medium · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
References
  1. collectorsfirearms.com ↗, years: Collectors Firearms: Colt Single Action Army .45 LC, 150th Anniversary factory engraved commemorative, "Only 490 were made in 1986"
  2. collectorsfirearms.com ↗, type: Colt Single Action Army .45 LC caliber revolver
Fact tags
  • ATF the ATF wording states it.
  • REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
  • ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
  • NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
Source checked
20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
Corrections
None

Historical context

Colt Buntline (base model shown for Colt 150th Anniversary SAA Buntline)
Shown: a long-barrelled Buntline-style Single Action Army, not the Colt 150th Anniversary edition.

Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Buntline.jpg” by Ricce, Public domain. Retrieved October 2026.

Summary: Wikipedia, “Colt Buntline”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.

FROM WIKIPEDIA

The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. According to Lake, the dime novelist Ned Buntline commissioned the production of five Buntline Specials. Lake described them as extra-long Colt Single Action Army revolvers, with a 12-inch (300 mm)-long barrel, and stated that Buntline presented them to five lawmen in thanks for their help in contributing local color to his western yarns.