 Rampant Colt—The original logo of Colt's Firearms Colt's Manufacturing Company is a firearms manufacturer founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. Colt's earlier venture, the "Patent Arms Manufacturing Company", had declared bankruptcy in 1842 and was no longer producing firearms, but the efficiency of the revolver design had become apparent to the US Army and they sought out the young entrepreneur to produce more. old colt logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ...
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State nickname: The Constitution State Other U.S. States Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Governor M. Jodi Rell (R) Senators Chris Dodd (D) Joe Lieberman (D) Official languages English Area 14,371 km² (48th) - Land 12,559 km² - Water 1,809 km² (12. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862), born in Hartford, Connecticut, was the inventor of the revolver, and founder of the Colt Firearms company. ...
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ...
The Mexican-American War was fought between the United States and Mexico between 1846 and 1848. ...
1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...
In 2002, Colt Defense was split off from Colt's Manufacturing Company. Colt Manufacturing Company now serves the civilian market, while Colt Defense serves the law enforcement, military, and private security markets worldwide. The modern Colt Python and Colt Anaconda are both recognized as refined expressions of the art of revolver making, as befits the company that first produced a revolving handgun. Colt also manufactures the Single Action Army, the gun that is popularly credited with having "won the west" (along with the Model 1873 Winchester rifle). Colt is also well known for their production (now taken over by Colt Defense) of the M1911 pistols, M4 carbines, M16 assault rifles, and M203 grenade launchers, although none of these are of Colt design. Colt Defense was split off from Colts Manufacturing Company in 2002 in order to focus on the military, law enforcement and security markets. ...
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Colt Single Action Army handgun (Modern Verson) Also known as the Colt Peacemaker or Single Action Army, the Colt Single Action Army handgun is a single action revolver holding 6 rounds of ammunition, that was designed for the US cavalry by Colts Manufacturing Company and adopted in 1875, and...
Winchester Rifle refers to an early family of repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company that was used widely in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century. ...
Mid 1945 produced US.M1911A1 US Army Colt by Remington Rand. ...
The term M4 has several meanings: The M4 macro processing language. ...
A carbine is a firearm similar to, but generally shorter and less powerful than a rifle or musket of a given period. ...
M16 is the U.S. Military designation for a family of rifles derived from the Armalite AR-15. ...
M16A2 (US). ...
M203 generally refers to the U.S. Militarys designation for a single shot 40 mm grenade launcher that attaches to the M16 assault rifle or the M4 Carbine. ...
A grenade launcher is weapon that fires or launches a grenade to longer distances than a soldier could throw by hand. ...
Originally named Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, Colt's early history largely revolved around the production of revolvers, developed out of Sam Colt's original 1836 invention of the revolver. Colt is perhaps best known for the famous "Colt .45", a name which actually refers to two separate historically significant firearms. The first of these is the aforementioned Single Action Army, of which Colt was the original producer, and which was one of the most prevalent firearms in the American West during the end of the 19th century. Colt still produces this firearm, though now they are available only as a Custom Shop offering. All original, good condition first generation Single Action Armys, those produced between 1873 and 1941, are among the most valuable to the collector. Especially valuable, often going for well over $10,000, are the OWA and the Nettleton Single Action Army Colts. 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The OWA Colt refers to the earliest issued Single Action Army's which were inspected by Orville W. Ainsworth. O.W. Ainsworth was the ordnance sub-inspector at the Colt factory for approximately the first thirteen months (Oct. 1873 to Nov. 1874) of the Single Action Army's production. It was Ainsworth that inspected the Colts used by General G.A. Custer's 7th Cavalry troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Actually, General Custer himself fell holding a couple of Schofield revolvers (made by rival gunmaker Smith & Wesson) in his hands. The Battle of The Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th cavalry of the United States Army. ...
A Modern Smith & Wesson Revolver (Model 629) Smith & Wesson is Americas largest manufacturer of handguns, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. ...
Henry Nettleton was the ordinance inspector in 1878 at the Springfield Armory. Second only to the OWA Colts, Nettleton Colts are prized by serious collectors. Both the Nettleton and OWA Colts will have the cartouche (OWA or HN) on the left side of the wood grip. From 1794 to 1968 the Springfield Armory was a center for the manufacture of U.S. military small arms and the site of many important technological advances. ...
The Single Action Army has been copied by numerous makers both in America and in Europe. The two major makers of Colt replicas are Aldo Uberti in Italy and United States Firearms Mfg. Co. in Hartford, Connecticut. Both companies make superb replicas that are much more affordable than the real Colt (for those who don't have to have the "real thing").
The second famous "Colt 45" is the John Browning designed M1911 and 1911-A1, which was the standard US military sidearm from 1911 through 1985. The M1911 is still frequently used by civilians, law enforcement, and military agencies today. 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 1980s marked a dark period in Colt's history. Colt had long left innovation in civilian firearms to their competitors, feeling that the handgun business could survive on their traditional double-action revolver and M1911 designs. Instead, Colt focused on the military market, where they held the dominant contracts for production of rifles and pistols for the US military. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
This strategy dramatically failed for Colt through a series of events in the 1980s. In 1984 the US military standardized on a new handgun and ended the nearly 75 year production of the M1911. Meanwhile, the military rifle business was shrinking, leaving Colt with fewer reliable streams of profit. In 1986 Colt's workers, members of the UAW went on strike for higher wages. This strike would ultimately last for four years, and was one of the longest running labor strikes in American history. With replacement workers running production, the quality of Colt's firearms began to slip. Dissatisfied with Colt's production, in 1988 the US military awarded the contract for future M16 production to Fabrique Nationale. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The United Auto Workers (UAW), officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union, is one of the largest labor unions in North America, with more than 700,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico organized into approximately 950 union locals. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often known as Fabrique Nationale and abbreviated simply as FN, is a well-known firearm manufacturer that originated in the Belgian city of Herstal, near Liège. ...
With the loss of both their primary military handgun and rifle markets, Colt had little hopes of survival but to turn to the civilian handgun market. Unfortunately, Colt's range of handgun products in the late 1980s was critically out of touch with the demands of the market, and their once-vaunted reputation for quality had suffered during the UAW strike. Colt's stable of double action revolvers and single action pistols were seen as old fashioned by a marketplace that was captivated by the new generation of "wondernines" - high-capacity, 9mm caliber handguns, as typified by the Glock 17. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
Wonder Nine is a term that was popularized in American firearm-related magazines during the 1980s. ...
ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ...
The GLOCK 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company GLOCK. It is a locked breech, short recoil 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. ...
Realizing that the future of the company was at stake, labor and management agreed to end the strike in an arrangement that resulted in Colt being sold to a group of private investors, the State of Connecticut, and the UAW itself.
The new Colt first attempted to address some of the demands of the market with the production in 1990 of the Double Eagle, a double action pistol based heavily on the M1911 design which was seen as an attempt to "modernize" the classic Browning design. Colt followed this up in 1992 with All American 2000, which was unlike any other handgun Colt had produced before. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The All American 2000 was a polymer framed, rotary bolt, 9mm handgun with a magazine capacity of 15 rounds. It was everything that Colt thought the civilian market wanted in a handgun. Unfortunately, the execution was terrible. Early models were plagued with inaccuracy and unreliability, and suffered from the poor publicity of having to be recalled. The product launch failed and production of the All American 2000 ended in 1994. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
All of the above ultimately led to the company's chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992. In 1994 the assets of Colt were purchased by Zilkha & Co, a financial group owned by Donald Zilkha. Zilkha's financial backing of the company, combined with his connections to the Democratic Party, enable Colt to begin winning back military contracts. Profits from these contracts were to be used to again attempt to regain their share of the civilian market, but it was not to be. 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
During a 1998 newspaper interview, CEO Ron Stewart stated that he would favor additional gun control at the federal level. This, in combination with the growing revelations of Zilkha's ties to anti-gun factions of the Democratic party, led to a massive grass-roots boycott of Colt's products and ultimately to the resignation of Ron Stewart. Zilkha replaced Stewart with Steven Sliwa and focused the remainder of Colt's handgun design efforts into "smart guns", a concept which was favored politically but had little interest or support among handgun owners. This research never produced any meaningful results. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
The Smart Gun or Personalised Gun is a concept gun that aims to reduce the misuse of guns by children/felons through the use of embedded smart chips. ...
Colt today is a shadow of its former self. It survives primarily on the manufacturing of military weapons based on other companies' designs, and on the continuing production of classic Colt designs which are sold primarily to collectors.
On November 4, 2002, Colt split into two companies: Colt’s Manufacturing Company, Inc, manufacturing and selling commercial arms, and Colt Defense LLC manufacturing and selling military arms. Colt Defense was split off from Colts Manufacturing Company in 2002 in order to focus on the military, law enforcement and security markets. ...
See also
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions. ...
External links Patent - US1304 -- Implement in firearms
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