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The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun.It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U.S. Army from 1873 to 1892.
Changes made to the 1890 were an attempt to make it more similar to the competing Colt single-action pistols of the era. After the production of a few Model 1888 transition revolvers with 5 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch barrel, called the "New Model Pocket Army", Remington began production of the Model 1890 Single Action Army revolver. It was manufactured ...
The Great Western Arms Company (GWA) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1953 to produce an American-made copy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Colt had discontinued this model in 1940. The Great Western revolver was sold by mail order in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was used in many Western movies and television shows.
2020-present (Second generation) Colt Single Action Army: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.45 Colt.44-40 WCF.38-40 WCF.32-20 WCF.38 Long Colt.22 LR.38 Special.357 Magnum.44 Special.45 ACP: 6 United States: 1873–1941 1956–1974 1976–1982 1994–present Colt Trooper
United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. (U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co., USFA) was a privately held firearms-manufacturing firm based in Hartford, Connecticut.Until 2011, United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. was known for producing single action revolvers, which were clones of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. [5]
The revolver was chosen by the Army in 1872, with the first order shipping in the summer of 1873 for 8,000 revolvers. [4] After the success of the Colt Single Action Army and Colt's conversion of existing percussion revolvers to Richards-Mason conversions, Mason went on to design Colt's smallest revolver, "The New Line" in 1874.
Charles Brinckerhoff Richards (December 23, 1835 – April 20, 1919) was an engineer who worked for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., where he was responsible for the development of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. [1] Richards was a founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a professor at Yale University where he taught for ...
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