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doing so for the past four months for the South.” This article even chided the
Federal Government for not taking action against Colt: “Every man who makes arms should be watched, and if he will not work for a fair equivalent for the Government, his manufactory should be taken away from him.” Despite secession and growing tensions between the North and the South, “Colt’s sales to Alabama, Virginia, Georgia, and Mississippi in 1860 alone were at least $ 61,000 (today’s equivalent of about 3.35 million).” Until just days before the first shot at Fort Sumter, Colt received orders from various states, some participating in secession. In his memoir on Colt, written in 1866, Henry Barnard reported, “before the rebellion broke out, Col. Colt, foreseeing that his weapons must ere long be in double demand, had made all preparations to extend his factory.”
970:. Colt acquired contracts for business machines, calculators, dishwashers, motorcycles, and automobiles; all marketed under a name other than Colt. Samuel Stone acquired a firm that manufactured plastics and renamed it "Colt rock" as well as a company that manufactured electrical products. Colt weathered the financial crises of the time by cutting the work week, reducing salaries, and keeping more employees on the payroll than they needed. These measures kept the company in business but ate up the cash surplus they had acquired during the World War I years.
1316:, LLC, to supply military, law enforcement and security markets. Colt's Manufacturing Company itself become a subsidiary of New Colt Holding Corp, LLC. In 2013 Colt Defense acquired New Colt Holding Corp., in part to protect a licensing agreement set to expire in 2014, where Colt's Manufacturing sold sporting rifles marketed to consumers that were manufactured by Colt Defense. This formed a single company to develop, manufacture and sell firearms under the Colt name for all markets for the first time since the 2003 completion of the restructuring.
1165:, which was unlike any other handgun Colt had produced before—being a polymer-framed, rotating-barrel, 9×19mm handgun with a magazine capacity of 15 rounds. It was designed by Reed Knight, with parts manufactured by outside vendors and assembled by Colt; its execution was disastrous. Early models were plagued with inaccuracy and unreliability and suffered from the poor publicity of a product recall. The product launch failed and production of the All American 2000 ended in 1994. This series of events led to the company's
708:, a nowadays legendary and long produced model, improved and based on the Open Top. Production of the Open Top started in 1872 and stopped in 1873 when the Single Action Army model started to be delivered to the US Army. However, the Open Top was already a completely new design. The parts, for example, would not interchange with the older percussion pistols. Mason moved the rear sight to the rear of the barrel as opposed to the hammer or the breechblock of the earlier efforts. The caliber was
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1019:. The company had a workforce of 15,000 men and women in three factories and production ran on three shifts, 24 hours a day, and won the Army-Navy rating of "E" for excellence. Colt ranked 99th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. However, the company was losing money every year due to mismanagement, an embittered workforce that had been stretched to its limits, and manufacturing methods which were becoming obsolete.
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645:, improved this conversion by placing the rear sight on the hammer and, along with Richards, he was granted patents in 1871 to convert percussion revolvers into rear-loading metallic-cartridge revolvers. Those converted revolvers are identified as the "Richards-Mason conversion". There were approximately 2100 Richards-Mason M1860 Army conversions made from 1877 to 1878 in a serial-number range 5800 to 7900.
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1242:, a retired U.S. Marine Lt. General, took the helm of the company in 2002. Keys salvaged Colt's reputation and brought Colt from the brink of bankruptcy to an international leader in Defense production. In 2010 Gerald R. Dinkel replaced Keys as CEO of Colt Defense LLC, while Keys remained on the board of directors for Colt Defense.
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Beretta 92S won, but this was contested by the Army. The Army ran their own trials, leading eventually to the
333:. Eli Whitney Jr (born 1820), the son of the cotton-gin-developer patriarch, was the head of the family armory and a successful arms maker and innovator of the era. Colt used a combination of renting the Whitney firm's facilities and subcontracting parts to the firm to continue his pursuit of revolver manufacture.
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like cellular manufacturing, operator quality assurance and single-piece flow, they developed a renewed focus on product development. This resulted in the M4 carbine and Colt 22 pistol, two of the most successful new product offerings in the late 1990s, capturing 50% market shares in the first year of production.
1118:. This was not much of a loss for Colt's current business, as M1911A1 production had stopped in 1945. Meanwhile, the military rifle business was growing because the U.S. military had a major demand for more upgraded M16s; the M16A2 model had just been adopted and the military needed hundreds of thousands of them.
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the rear of the receiver and replacing it with a breechplate containing six internal firing pins. The cartridges were loaded through the mouths of the chambers. Colt made 5000 of these but they were not well accepted. Colt found the mechanism so complex it included a spare percussion cylinder with each revolver.
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that it owned. The judge ruled that since the term M4 is a generic designation that Colt does not specifically own, Colt had to pay monetary reimbursement to
Bushmaster to recoup Bushmaster's legal fees. The M4 designation itself comes from the U.S. military designation system, whose terms are in the
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In 1992, the creditors, state and shareholders enlisted the aid of turnaround specialist RC (Ron) Whitaker to overcome the bankruptcy challenge. He developed a new team to address the company's situation. In addition to creating a positive working relationship with the UAW to introduce new techniques
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Holding Co. LLC and president & chief executive officer of Colt Defense LLC. Mr. Veilleux previously occupied the position of Principal at Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., Principal at General Electric
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American history. With replacement workers running production, the quality of Colt's firearms began to decline. Dissatisfied with Colt's production, in 1988 the U.S.
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design. The Colt XM148 grenade launcher was created by Colt's design project engineer, gun designer Karl R. Lewis. The May 1967 "Colt's Ink" newsletter announced that he had won a national competition for his selection and treatment of materials in the design. The newsletter stated in part "In only
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November 1865, Franklin had attempted to purchase a license to the Rollin White patent from competitor Smith & Wesson. White and Smith & Wesson would take no less than $ 1.1 million, but Franklin and Colt's directors decided it was too large an investment on a patent that would expire in
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was a boon to firearms manufacturers such as Colt's, and the company thrived during the conflict. Sam Colt had carefully developed contacts within the ordnance department, signing the very first government contract for 25,000 rifles. Colt's
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Tribune denounced Colt and his company by asserting, “the traitors have found sympathizers among us, men base enough to sell arms when they knew they would be... in the hands of the deadly enemies of the Union... Col. Colt’s manufactory can turn probably 1,000 a week and has been
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It was 1868 when Colt's first effort toward a metallic cartridge revolver was by conversion of existing percussion revolvers. The first of these conversions was patented on
September 15, 1868, by Colt engineer, F. Alexander Thuer as patent number 82258. The Thuer conversion was made by milling off
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placed an order for 5,000 of these revolvers for army issue. Despite a following order later in the year for an additional 9,000 revolvers, Colt failed to convince the
British to adopt his revolver as the issue sidearm for the army. Colt began to realize that British sales were failing to meet his
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protection on June 15, 2015, citing both assets and debts in the $ 100 million to $ 500 million range. According to analysts, Colt's problems were due to the loss of the contract and low demand for its civilian handguns. In January 2016, Colt announced that the bankruptcy court had approved its
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since 1988. However, Colt remained the sole source for M4 carbines for the US military. Under their license agreement with Colt, the US military could not legally award second-source production contracts for the M4 until July 1, 2009. In 2007 Colt won a contract to produce M4 carbines for the US
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derringer after the acquisition, as an effort to help break into the metallic-cartridge gun market, but also introduced its own three Colt Derringer Models, all of them also chambered in a .41 rimfire unique cartridge. The last model to be in production, the third Colt Derringer, was not dropped
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and the loading lever was replaced by an ejector rod. This conversion added a breech plate with a firing pin and a rear sight mounted on the breechplate. Cartridges were loaded into the cylinder one at a time via a loading gate. Colt manufactured 9000 of these revolvers between 1873 and 1878. In
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in 1856, and employee tenement housing. He established a ten-hour day for employees, installed washing stations in the factory, mandated a one-hour lunch break, and built the Charter Oak Hall, a club where employees could enjoy games, newspapers, and discussion rooms. Colt ran his plant with a
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for testing in 1872. The Army rejected the pistol and asked for a more powerful caliber with a stronger frame. Mason redesigned the frame to incorporate a topstrap, similar to the Remington revolvers, and placed the rear sight on the rear of the frame; he consulted with Richards on some other
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and ingratiated himself by presenting cased engraved Colt revolvers to such appropriate officials as Britain's Master General of the Ordnance. At one exhibit Colt disassembled ten guns and reassembled ten guns using different parts from different guns. As the world's leading proponent of mass
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As the war ended and demand for military arms came to a halt, production literally ceased. Many long-time workers and engineers retired from the company and nothing was built from 1945 to 1947. Mismanagement of funds during the war had a serious impact as the 105-year-old firm faced possible
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made double-action revolvers in .45 ACP, which were accepted and issued by the U.S. military under the same name. Colt produced 151,700 revolvers during the war as well as 13,000 Maxim-Vickers machine guns and 10,000 Browning machine guns with an additional 100,000 under subcontract to other
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practice. It was a major innovator and training ground in manufacturing technology in this decade (and several after). Soon after establishing his Hartford factory, Colt set out to establish a factory in Europe and chose London, England. He organized a large display of his firearms at the
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1188:, which resulted in a large downturn for the entire defense industry. Colt was hit by this downturn, though it would be made worse later in the 1990s by a boycott by the shooting public in America. In 1994, the assets of Colt were purchased by Zilkha & Co, a financial group owned by
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The 1870s and 1880s provided sales opportunity to the Colt company via the spread of European-American society ever further westward across the continent, and the demand for firearms that it engendered in various ways. As white Americans displaced Indians from the
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In the new market of metallic cartridge rear-loading pocket revolvers, Colt's not only introduced its three Derringer Models (as of 1870) or the Colt House and the Open Top Pocket (the last two as of 1871) but also introduced in 1873 a subsequent design called its
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1868. In the meantime, Colt turned its attention to manufacturing goods other than firearms, such as watches, sewing machines, typewriters and bicycles. In 1868 Rollin White requested an extension to his patent, but the request was rejected. He then turned to the
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Double Action revolver in 1899. In caliber .45 Colt, the New Service was accepted by the U.S. Military as the Model 1909 .45 revolver. The New Service revolver was available in other calibers such as .38 Special and, later in the 20th century, .45 ACP (as the
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ruled that the company was within its rights not to deal with the union and the strike ended. In the year following the strike, the factory was hit by a hurricane and flood. Many company shipping records and historical documents were lost as a result.
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until 1912. The first metallic cartridge breech-loading weapons sold by Colt's were those Derringers, in 1870, that were formerly conceived by the National Arms Company, but Colt's also started developing its own rear-loading guns and cartridges.
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to form the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation and in 1964 the conglomerate reorganized as Colt Industries. In 1956 Colt resumed production of the Single Action Army revolver and in 1961 began making commemorative versions of their classic models.
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military market, where they held the primary contracts for the production of rifles for the US military. This strategy dramatically failed for Colt through a series of events in the 1980s. In 1984, the U.S. military standardized on the
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After restructuring, a reinvigorated Colt introduced several new versions of its 1911 pistols, including stainless-steel competition and target models. In 2017, Colt returned to the production of double-action revolvers with the .38
1150:. 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.
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only about a decade before), and it was not yet easy to replicate across different factories. Interchangeability was not complete in the Paterson works, and traditional gunsmithing techniques did not fill the gap entirely there. The
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1281:(ACR) program of the 1980s, but along with other contestants failed to replace the M16A2. Colt and many other makers entered the US trials for a new pistol in the 1980s, though the Beretta entry would win and become the
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for the exclusive use of his patent. The contract stipulated that White would be paid 25 cents for every revolver, but that it was up to him to defend his patent against infringement as opposed to Smith & Wesson.
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expectations. Unable to justify the London factory's expenses, Colt closed the London factory in 1856. Over the next few months his workmen crated and shipped the machinery and disassembled firearms back to America.
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swelled the backlog of orders to three years. Colt hired 4,000 more workers, making a total of 10,000 employees—and its stock's price increased by 400%. By 1918, Colt had produced and sold 425,500 of the famous
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pistol, which is the longest-standing military and law enforcement service handgun in the world and is still used. Though they did not develop it, for a long time Colt was also primarily responsible for all
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In an attempt to attract skilled German workers to his plant, Colt built a village near the factory away from the tenements which he named Coltsville and modeled the homes after a village near
344:, ensuring Colt's continuance in manufacturing revolvers. In 1848, Colt was able to start again with a new business of his own, and 1855, he converted it into a corporation under the name of
415:. It took many more years and a UK government commission before the point became universally accepted that such manufacture was possible and economical. Colt opened his London plant on the
604:, who had recently left the Army at the end of the Civil War. With the Civil War over and having no new military contracts, Colt's Manufacturing was forced to lay off over 800 employees.
1192:. It was speculated that Zilkha's financial backing of the company enabled Colt to begin winning back military contracts. In fact, during the time period it won only one contract, the
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who made some suggestions to Colt about making it in a larger caliber. Having no factory or machinery to produce the pistols, Samuel Colt collaborated with the Whitney
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453:(1854–1856), Colt's weapons were used by both sides. In 1855 Colt unveiled new state-of-the-art armories in the Hartford and London factories stocked with the latest
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Colt's Armory from an 1857 engraving viewed from the East
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3832:"COMPANY NEWS; Colt's New Chief Likes to Fix Businesses"
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Rottman, Gordon; Alan Gilliland; Johnny Shumate (2011).
3227:(6 ed.). Iola: Gun Digest Books. pp. 218–220.
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Colt Fire Arms Company, Huyshope Avenue Workers Housing
4240:. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (
3852:"Dennis R. Veilleux: Executive Profile & Biography"
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2470:. Madison, Wisconsin: American Heritage. 1972. p.
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1499:. A collection of his personal papers is owned by the
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2101:"Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal"
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2814:. In John Whiteclay Chambers; Fred Anderson (eds.).
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70:(as Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company)
4231:, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press,
3580:"Colt files for bankruptcy, seeks August auction"
3394:"The legend lives on - Colt files for bankruptcy"
2816:The Oxford companion to American military history
2353:The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display
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2151:(Press release). Colt CZ Group. April 12, 2022
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1238:The boycott of Colt gradually faded out after
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728:Colt Single Action Army, U.S. Artillery Model
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4318:Colt Fire Arms Company, East Armory Building
3778:. December 13, 1984 – via NYTimes.com.
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3192:Grant, Ellsworth S. (1982). "The Takeover".
3054:International Directory of Company Histories
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978:In 1935, after employees voted to disband a
531:only introduced its first revolver in 1857 (
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153:Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
5477:Manufacturing companies established in 1836
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1344:. In 2020, Colt reintroduced a modernized
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927:revolvers in caliber .45 ACP, called the
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3606:"Colt gunmaker emerges from bankruptcy"
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2557:Jinks, Roy G.; Sandra C. Krein (2006).
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4272:The Colt Revolver in the American West
4179:Lehto, Mark R.; Buck, James R (2008).
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2210:"Colt 1839 Revolving Percussion Rifle"
2069:GOSSELIN, KENNETH R. (July 23, 2013).
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1411:Col. Charles L.F. Robinson (1911–1916)
747:2nd Generation Colt Single Action Army
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2042:List of modern armament manufacturers
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4332:Colt Fire Arms Company, Machine Shop
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1465:Ronald L. Stewart (1996–1999)
698:Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver
600:. The company's vice-president was
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4346:Colt Fire Arms Company, Forge Shop
4228:English and American Tool Builders
4183:. New York: Taylor & Francis.
3482:"Colt Defense wins major contract"
2663:. Thomas Nelson Inc. p. 452.
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3560:Jarzemsky, Matt (June 15, 2015).
2561:. Arcadia Publishing. p. 8.
1889:Colt 1855 Revolving carbine/rifle
1775:Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
1471:William M. Keys (1999–2013)
1459:John F. Jastrem (1995–1996)
1036:. In 1958 Penn-Texas merged with
706:Colt Single Action Army revolvers
287:Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle
145:Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC
22:Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC
5136:Advanced Colt Carbine-Monolithic
4277:Colt Automatic Pistols Home Page
3924:Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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1030:Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool
992:National Recovery Administration
820:. The M1892 was replaced by the
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413:American system of manufacturing
367:in 1855, a manor that he called
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3541:Siegel, Jacob (June 17, 2015).
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3474:
3448:
3430:. Simon and Schuster. pp.
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1549:Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver
1233:
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864:
842:M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun
514:In 1852 an employee of Colt's,
465:, who would found the original
250:
4147:Johns Hopkins University Press
3811:"Gamble Quits as Colt's Chief"
2584:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2141:
2119:
2093:
1429:B. Franklin Conner (1949–1955)
1108:
1101:'s new Houston franchise, the
1073:'s subsequent adoption of the
1044:
1017:M1917 water-cooled machineguns
684:Colt continued to produce the
543:appeared just in time for the
402:Institution of Civil Engineers
255:
16:American firearms manufacturer
1:
5358:Charles Brinckerhoff Richards
4282:Jarvis-Robinson Family Papers
3874:Museum of Connecticut History
3830:Bryant, Adam (May 15, 1992).
3709:"New for 2021: Colt Anaconda"
3630:Riehl, F (November 2, 2016).
3101:. Osprey Publishing. p.
2351:Auerbach, Jeffrey A. (1999).
2053:
1947:
1579:Colt Model 1862 Pocket Police
1486:Museum of Connecticut History
1426:Graham H. Anthony (1944–1949)
1366:
1184:The 1990s brought the end of
1022:
945:Thompson 1921 submachine guns
869:
551:1860–1865: American Civil War
297:was still rather new (it had
5452:Colt's Manufacturing Company
5131:Colt Advanced Piston Carbine
4910:Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
4677:Colt's Manufacturing Company
4618:Garlock Sealing Technologies
4608:Colt's Manufacturing Company
3056:. St. James Press. pp.
2688:. Globe Pequot. p. 72.
2438:(1854). "Guns and Pistols".
2242:Castro, John (Spring 1979).
1873:
1693:Colt Police Positive Special
1587:Metallic cartridge revolvers
1435:Fred A. Roff Jr. (1958–1962)
712:and it was submitted to the
299:reached commercial viability
275:) and another on August 29 (
61:; 169 years ago
7:
5293:ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol)
3268:Title The M16 Weapon Series
2019:
1781:Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket
1617:Colt Model 1871-72 Open Top
1515:
1510:
1479:
1402:Lewis C. Grover (1902–1909)
702:Colt Model 1871-72 Open Top
10:
5503:
3970:"Colt 1878 Hammer Shotgun"
3920:"Colt Firearms Collection"
3521:"Colt's Manufacturing LLC"
3052:. In Thomas Derdak (ed.).
2810:Smith, Merrit Roe (1999).
2527:. UNM Press. p. 231.
2448:. Bradley and Evans: 583.
1929:ArmaLite AR-15 type rifles
1438:David C. Scott (1962–1963)
1094:being selected as the M9.
952:stock market crash of 1929
847:invasion of Guantánamo Bay
669:and for circumventing the
636:revolver. The caliber was
620:1865–1880s: Post–Civil War
533:Smith & Wesson Model 1
348:in Hartford, Connecticut.
308:United States Marine Corps
245:
229:West Hartford, Connecticut
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4584:
4528:
4520:Moriarty Eclipse Windmill
4497:
4419:
4372:HAER No. CT-189-I, "
4365:HAER No. CT-189-H, "
4358:HAER No. CT-189-G, "
4351:HAER No. CT-189-F, "
4344:HAER No. CT-189-E, "
4337:HAER No. CT-189-D, "
4330:HAER No. CT-189-C, "
4323:HAER No. CT-189-B, "
4316:HAER No. CT-189-A, "
4207:. Yale University Press.
4002:Flayderman, Norm (2007).
3899:Connecticut State Library
3334:Hopkins, Cameron (2001).
3309:Hillstrom, Kevin (1994).
2684:Grant, Ellsworth (2006).
2591:) loads a breech-loading
2587:where Blondie (played by
1490:Connecticut State Library
1450:Richard F. Gamble (1990)
1441:Paul A. Benke (1963–1968)
1432:Chester Bland (1955–1958)
1257:claiming that "M4" was a
1249:and AR-15 rifles such as
878:M1911 and M1911A1 pistols
439:Navy Model Colt revolvers
126:
116:
105:
95:
84:
74:
55:
45:
35:
26:
5428:41.7385145°N 72.722959°W
4905:Model 1903 Pocket Hammer
4021:Parker, John H. (1898).
3760:– via NYTimes.com.
3299:Lendler (1997) pp. 21–22
3290:Lendler (1997) pp. 25–27
3091:Thompson, Leroy Thompson
3080:Lendler (1997) pp. 18–19
2523:Ware, Donald L. (2007).
2217:National Firearms Museum
1942:– produced under license
1936:– produced under license
1893:Colt 1878 Hammer Shotgun
1659:Colt New Police Revolver
1641:Colt Model 1878 Frontier
1361:research and development
803:
393:Great Exhibition of 1851
175:and the shift away from
5467:Military in Connecticut
4821:Police Positive Special
4145:, Baltimore, Maryland:
3566:The Wall Street Journal
3149:Harvard Business School
2848:James Daniel Richardson
2659:Garrison, Webb (2011).
2593:Colt 1851 Navy Revolver
2385:Barnard, Henry (1866).
1623:Colt Single Action Army
999:1939–1945: World War II
974:1930s: Great Depression
902:, which debuted as the
838:Battle of San Juan Hill
734:Colt Single Action Army
192:Colt Single Action Army
5433:41.7385145; -72.722959
5218:XM148 grenade launcher
4915:Model 1908 Vest Pocket
4623:GGB Bearing Technology
4125:Cite journal requires
4072:Cite journal requires
4038:Cite journal requires
3856:Bloomberg Businessweek
2935:www.antiquearmsinc.com
1909:Colt Lightning Carbine
1883:
1757:
1748:Semi-automatic pistols
1699:Colt Detective Special
1599:
1376:
1309:
1274:
1255:trademark infringement
1214:of Colt's products by
1181:
1162:Colt All American 2000
1054:
1008:
887:
879:
851:1st Volunteer Infantry
761:Double-action revolver
748:
729:
681:
560:
356:
323:Samuel Hamilton Walker
265:
5394:National Arms Company
5363:John Henry Fitzgerald
5343:Elizabeth Jarvis Colt
5285:Semi-automatic pistol
4745:Open Top Pocket Model
3737:. February 15, 2021.
3336:"Kimber Ultra Ten II"
2991:Kinard, Jeff (2004).
2956:Single Action Sixguns
2749:Walter, John (2006).
1881:
1756:Colt Mustang .380 ACP
1755:
1671:Colt M1905 New Marine
1594:
1399:John Hall (1901–1902)
1374:
1325:Chapter 11 bankruptcy
1308:
1279:Advanced Combat Rifle
1272:
1179:
1167:Chapter 11 bankruptcy
1146:, as typified by the
1099:Major League Baseball
1052:
1006:
885:
877:
859:Elizabeth Jarvis Colt
746:
727:
679:
659:National Arms Company
612:patent held by rival
558:
354:
295:interchangeable parts
263:
240:Česká zbrojovka Group
159:, founded in 1855 by
157:firearms manufacturer
89:Hartford, Connecticut
5169:Colt Automatic Rifle
4556:Charles Hosmer Morse
4429:FM Consolidated line
4308:(HAER) documentation
3400:on November 13, 2007
3371:on November 13, 2007
3142:Scherer, Frederic M.
3097:The Colt 1911 Pistol
3048:Grant, Tina (1996).
2999:. ABC-CLIO. p.
2981:, pp. 59–60, 64
2510:Lendler (1997) p. 17
2034:United States portal
1917:semi-automatic rifle
1813:Colt Mustang Plus II
1805:Colt Target Model 22
1717:Colt Official Police
1687:Colt Police Positive
1561:Colt 1855 Sidehammer
1524:Percussion revolvers
1462:Donald Zilkha (1996)
1328:restructuring plan.
1273:Modified Sport Rifle
1011:At the beginning of
900:semiautomatic pistol
855:Spanish–American War
582:Colt Army Model 1860
541:Colt Army Model 1860
433:In 1854 the British
319:Mexican–American War
101:Dennis Veilleux, CEO
5424: /
4223:Roe, Joseph Wickham
4139:Hounshell, David A.
4085:Sapp, Rick (2007).
3342:on December 5, 2004
3038:, pp. 131–138.
2736:Kinard (2004) p.124
2547:Boorman (2004) p.36
2501:Kinard (2004) p.154
2341:, pp. 164–185.
2107:. February 12, 2021
1625:"Peacemaker" (1873)
1468:Steven Sliwa (1999)
1218:and US gun owners.
1203:The Washington Post
1123:United Auto Workers
829:) and .357 Magnum.
694:Colt House Revolver
602:William B. Franklin
509:Warner & Swasey
501:Worcester R. Warner
467:Pratt & Whitney
23:
4831:FitzGerald Special
4755:Single Action Army
4551:Franklin Fairbanks
4536:Thaddeus Fairbanks
4267:Colt official site
4089:. F+W Media, Inc.
3980:on August 27, 2015
3837:The New York Times
3819:. October 4, 1990.
3816:The New York Times
3796:The New York Times
3776:The New York Times
3758:The New York Times
2264:on August 10, 2014
1897:Colt-Burgess rifle
1884:
1835:Colt Officer's ACP
1758:
1600:
1415:William C. Skinner
1406:William C. Skinner
1377:
1310:
1275:
1182:
1132:Fabrique Nationale
1067:Springfield Armory
1065:shutting down the
1055:
1009:
968:American Civil War
960:William C. Skinner
933:Smith & Wesson
888:
880:
749:
730:
682:
663:Brooklyn, New York
614:Smith & Wesson
578:American Civil War
569:American Civil War
561:
545:American Civil War
537:United States Army
524:Smith & Wesson
406:Telford Gold Medal
357:
312:United States Army
266:
21:
5407:
5406:
5326:
5325:
4879:
4878:
4836:Detective Special
4710:Pocket Percussion
4643:
4642:
4541:Erastus Fairbanks
4254:978-0-917914-73-7
4214:978-0-300-06746-0
4190:978-0-8058-5308-7
4156:978-0-8018-2975-8
4096:978-0-89689-534-8
4013:978-0-87349-313-0
3870:"Colt Collection"
3713:American Rifleman
3688:Firearm Headlines
3501:. secdatabase.com
3441:978-0-7432-1561-9
3320:978-0-8103-8998-4
3277:978-1-84908-690-5
3234:978-0-89689-525-6
3203:978-0-917218-17-0
3112:978-1-84908-433-8
3067:978-1-55862-327-9
3010:978-1-85109-470-7
2965:978-0-87349-953-8
2829:978-0-19-507198-6
2760:978-1-85367-692-5
2720:978-0-300-11133-0
2695:978-0-7627-3972-1
2670:978-1-59555-359-1
2568:978-0-7385-4510-3
2534:978-0-8263-4280-5
2407:, pp. 15–65.
2375:Houze (2006) p.83
2362:978-0-300-08007-0
2320:978-1-57607-268-4
1925:Colt Double rifle
1827:Colt Double Eagle
1695:/ Viper (D frame)
1447:(1968–1990)
1445:David I. Margolis
1200:). During a 1998
1144:9Ă—19mm Parabellum
397:Hyde Park, London
361:Connecticut River
278:U.S. patent 1,304
273:U.S. Patent 9430X
155:) is an American
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3976:. Archived from
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1913:Colt Stagecoach
1822:Colt Delta Elite
1817:Colt Mustang XSP
1711:Colt Diamondback
1665:Colt New Service
956:Great Depression
954:and the ensuing
941:John T. Thompson
925:Colt New Service
778:Indian Territory
630:Charles Richards
459:Francis A. Pratt
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4811:Official Police
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1369:
1240:William M. Keys
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1063:Robert McNamara
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1038:Fairbanks-Morse
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984:Samuel M. Stone
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4885:Semi-automatic
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