Samuel Colt’s rise looks inevitable in hindsight. It absolutely was not. Before the famous Hartford Empire, before the military contracts, and before the Colt name became shorthand for the American ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory at first. But in the firearms business, the corporate puzzle pieces really do snap together this way. If you see Colt, CZ-USA, and Dan Wesson as separate companies, ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In 1836, Samuel Colt received ...

The gun that blazed the trails of the Western frontier was the famous six-shooter made by Colt’s Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. One hundred and twenty-seven years after its founding, Colt is still capable ...

Then when he was 16, his father sent him to the Amherst Academy in Massachusetts to study navigation after noticing his high aptitude. While attending school, he continued to experiment heavily with ...