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Mission: Colt Pistols
Intelligence:
the Colt Firearms company started in 1847, and along with Rimington and Winchester, it is one of America’s oldest firearms company. It is said that
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God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Over the years, Colt has peppered the American landscape with reliable revolvers, pistols and rifles. While Colt did not invent the revolver concept, his designs did go on to be the first ones successfully patented and widely used. Colt also contributed to the American Civil War, with Colt introducing a revolver rifle, which was one of the first repeating rifles at the time. Among the products developed by Colt are the revolvers that "Won the West", such as the Colt Single Action Army or Peacemaker in .45 caliber. John Browning also worked for Colt for a time, and
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| came up with now ubiquitous parallel slide type of design for a pistol, which debuted on the Colt M1900 pistol, leading to numerous pistol designs including the Colt M1911 pistol. Colt became famous for producing John Browning's single action semi-auto design, the .45 ACP 1911. This pistol was adopted by the US Army as their official sidearm for decades. Though it was developed by Eugene Stoner at Armalite, Colt produced the M-16 rifle for decades, as well as civilian variants likt the CAR-15. In 2002, Colt Defense was split from Colt Manufacturing. Colt manufacturing now serves the civiian market, and Colt Defense produces M1911 pistols, M4 carbines, M16 assault rifles, and M203 grenade launchers. Today, Colt remains a producer of high quality, reliable firearms. |
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