Source: ATF P 5300.11 · Curios or Relics List · Jan 1972 – Apr 20253,573 entries · 4 sections
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Colt Ned Buntline Commemorative

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. 7 ↗

Colt, Ned Buntline Commemorative, cal. .45 revolver.

ATF lists cal. .45; this is the .45 Colt cartridge.

What this entry requires

  • ATF REQUIRESYour firearm is this edition: “Ned Buntline Commemorative”
  • INFOATF states no date; production was about 1979.

Editorial facts · Our research

Country
United States³
Manufacturer
Colt's Firearms
Type
Pistol
Action
Other⁴
Caliber
.45 Colt²
Made
c. 1979production; ATF states no date¹
Service
Commercial
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Source

Official wording
ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section II · PDF p. 7 ↗ · ATF original ↗
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Editorial facts
Confidence: High · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
References
  1. collectorsfirearms.com ↗, years: Ned Buntline Commemorative, Colt New Frontier .45 LC, 1979 issue
  2. collectorsfirearms.com ↗, calibers: .45 LC
  3. Wikipedia, “Colt's Manufacturing Company” ↗, country: Colt's Manufacturing Company: American maker, hq Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.; incorporated at Hartford in 1855 as Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
  4. collectorsfirearms.com ↗, action: S/N NB1504, single action cased commemoration revolver, .45 Long Colt, 12" barrel
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
2 changes · see below

Correction history

  1. Data-trust reviewEditorial confidence: Low → High. Re-rated after supporting references were added or re-checked.
  2. Data-trust reviewYears: 1976–1979 → 1979. 1979 issue

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Historical context

Colt Buntline (base model shown for Colt Ned Buntline Commemorative)
Shown: a Colt Single Action Army Buntline Special (museum example), not the Ned Buntline Commemorative.

Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Colt Buntline Special Revolver-NMAH-AHB2015q111239.jpg” by The Smithsonian Institution, 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.