Editing Webley Revolver (section)

===Webley RIC===
{{Main article|Webley RIC}}
[[File:George Armstrong Custer and wife Fort Lincoln Dakota Territory.jpg|thumb|left|Custer and his wife at [[Fort Abraham Lincoln]], [[Dakota Territory]], 1874. Reportedly at right in gunrack is a Webley Revolver used by Custer<ref>{{cite web|date=31 August 2015|first1=Garry|last1=James|url=https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/custers-last-gun-webley-ric-revolver/248900|title=Custer's Last Gun: Webley RIC Revolver|website=Guns & Ammo}}</ref>]]

[[File:Webley 1868 RIC.JPG|thumb|Webley Royal Irish Constabulary Revolver]]
The Webley RIC ([[Royal Irish Constabulary]]) model was Webley's first double-action revolver, and adopted by the RIC in 1868,<ref>{{harvnb|Maze|2002|p=30}}</ref> hence the name. It was a solid frame, gate-loaded revolver, chambered in .442 Webley. General [[George Armstrong Custer]] was known to have owned a pair, which he is believed to have used at the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]] in 1876.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Elman |title=Fired In Anger |publisher=Doubleday |date=1968 |oclc=436122 }}{{page needed|date=February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/burntumber60/MPdoerner.html |title=Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |last=Doerner |first=John A |publisher=Martin Pate |access-date =2006-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030924041023/http://www.geocities.com/burntumber60/MPdoerner.html |archive-date=2003-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm |title=Guns at the Little Bighorn |last=Gallear |first=Mark |access-date=2006-08-03 |year=2001 |publisher=Custer Association of Great Britain |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908225428/http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm |archive-date=2006-09-08 }}</ref>

A small number of early examples were produced in the huge .500 [[Tranter (revolver)|Tranter]] calibre, and later models were available chambered for the .450 Adams and other cartridges.  They were also widely copied in Belgium.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}