The new, six-shot Taurus Defender 856 Ultra-Lite (let's call it the Defender for brevity) is built around a lightweight, hard-anodized aluminum frame with a traditional rounded trigger guard.

Taurus Intl. Mfg. Inc. has a long and storied history of producing double-action revolvers. Its roots go back to 1924 when a small tool-and-die-forging plant, called Forjas Taurus (the name would ...