Colt's Manufacturing Company serves the civilian market, and Colt Defense, provides weapons to the law enforcement, military, and private security markets worldwide. It is estimated that in its first ...

Colt Patent Firearms Co.'s reliable percussion revolvers had been the most popular military sidearms during the American Civil War, but times were changing, and the firm had to find a way to ...

In this episode of “I Have This Old Gun,” American Rifleman TV examines a classic revolver designed by Colt's for law enforcement during the mid-20th century.

His revolver-Patent right case vs Terry et al. ... Important Suit for Infringement of Patent. ... Samuel Colt against Hiram Terry and Edw. Leavitt. Share full article. Oct. 18, 1852.

The "Paterson" pistol up for auction is believed to be just one of about 850 No. 2 and No. 3 belt model revolvers manufactured by Patent Arms Manufacturing Co. between 1837 and 1840.

Its success began on February 25, 1836, when Samuel Colt was granted his first United States patent for the Colt revolver—a firearm that helped define the Old West. However, there are a couple ...

The patent which was Col. Colt's is now no longer such, but the free property of every one ; and on the faith of this, many valuable improvements on the original Colt pistol and rifle have been ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Interesting Patent Case—Colt's Pistols ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 10 (November 1852), p. 77 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...

A memorial to Samuel Colt in Hartford, Conn., headquarters of his Patent Arms Manufacturing Company. The revolver Colt developed was a vast improvement on 19th-century firearms, and it eventually ...

COLT'S REVOLVERS.; Important Suit for Infringement of Patent. ... Samuel Colt against Hiram Terry and Edw. Leavitt. Share full article. Judges NELSON and BETTS. Oct. 13, 1852; ...