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The Official Police was machined of fine carbon steel, with blued or nickel-plated finishes, and was offered in 4, 5 and 6 inches (100, 130 and 150 mm) barrels.Built on Colt's .41 or "E" frame, it was manufactured in a variety of chamberings, including .22 LR, .32-20 (discontinued in 1942), .41 Long Colt (discontinued in 1938), and the most common and popular, the .38 Special.
The revolver's sights consisted of a half-moon blade front with a fixed iron open rear sight, which was a simple V-notch shaped groove milled into the revolver's topstrap. [2] Colt Police Positive caliber .32 S&W Long/.32 Colt New Police made in 1938. Colt Police Positive revolvers marked with Colt D.A..32 on
Colt Police Positive-revolver in .32 Colt New Police with a 6" barrel. This is a right-handed model. The Police Positive Special was an iterative improvement of Colt's earlier Police Positive model, the only differences being a slightly lengthened cylinder and elongated and strengthened frame to allow the chambering of the longer, more powerful .32-20 Winchester and .38 Special cartridges. [3]
The Colt New Police was selected by New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896 to be the first standard-issue revolver for NYPD officers. [2] [3] A target version was made until 1905 with a 6-inch barrel and adjustable sights. [4] The New Police Revolver was replaced in the Colt catalog in 1907 by the improved Colt Police ...
Fitzgerald developed his snubnosed revolver concept around the mid-1920s, when as an employee for Colt Firearms, he converted a .38 Special Colt Police Positive Special revolver, into his first Fitz Special. [5] He later converted two .45 Colt New Service revolvers in the same manner, [6] and was known to carry the pair in his front pockets.
Colt New Police Revolver: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.32 Colt New Police: 6 United States: 1896-1907 Colt New Service: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.45 Colt.455 Webley.476 Enfield.45 ACP.44-40 WCF.44 Special.38-40.38 Special.357 Magnum: 6 United States: 1898-1946 Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver: Colt's Patent ...
More popular in Europe than North America, Colt was the most prominent American manufacturer which chambered any weapons in .32 Long Colt, [2] most notably the Police Positive. The FAMAE revolver produced in Chile is currently offered in .32 Long Colt. [5] [6]
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...