Editing Colt Cobra (section)

==Notable users==
*Official gun of [[Atlanta Police Department]].
*[[Jack Ruby]] used a Colt Cobra .38 to kill [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] on November 24, 1963 as [[Dallas, Texas]] law enforcement officials were transporting Oswald from the city jail to the county jail.<ref name="Christianson">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0r1mgixJWoC | title=Bodies of Evidence: Forensic Science and Crime | publisher=Globe Pequot | author=Christianson, Scott | year=2006 | pages=83 | isbn=9781592285808 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The infamous gun was purchased for $220,000 at an auction held by Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions in New York City on December 26, 1991 by collector [[Anthony Pugliese|Anthony V. Pugliese III]] of Delray Beach, Florida. It was consigned by Jack Ruby's brother, Earl Ruby.<ref name="Trask">{{cite news | url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/mar/11/jack-ruby-las-vegas-guns-trajectory/ | title=From Jack Ruby to Las Vegas: A gun's trajectory | work=Las Vegas Sun | date=March 11, 2008 | access-date=13 November 2014 | author=Trask, Mike}}</ref>
* [[Lee Marvin]] carried two Colt Cobras while playing Detective-Lieutenant Frank Balinger of the Chicago Police Department on the television series ''[[M Squad]]''.
* [[Monika Ertl]] used a Colt Cobra .38 to kill [[Roberto Quintanilla]], the man who cut off the hands of the [[corpse]] of [[Che Guevara]], in 1971.
* Legendary music producer [[Phil Spector]] was convicted of murdering actress [[Lana Clarkson]] with a Colt Cobra .38 at his Alhambra, California home in 2003.
* The Colt Cobra was the favourite weapon of [[Michele Cavataio]], in fact he used this weapon into the [[First Mafia War|first mafia war]].
* Ray Midge, the protagonist of [[The Dog of the South]] by [[Charles Portis]], has this gun confiscated by a border agent while trying to smuggle it from Mexico into Belize in a lemon pie box.
* This is the gun that [[Hunter Biden]] is alleged to have bought in relation to the gun charge brought against him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.40.0.pdf|title=United States of America v Robert Hunter Biden|date=14 September 2023|access-date=14 September 2023|website=Courtlistener.com}}</ref>