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The Colt Revolving Belt Pistol or Navy Pistol, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" or "of Navy Caliber" (Naval is heavy gun and Navy Size Caliber was termed later for another Colt model), is a .36 caliber, six-round cap and ball revolver that was designed by Samuel Colt between 1847 and 1850.
Produced a variant of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver: 3,700 Griswold & Gunnison revolvers [2] Hodgkins Macon, Georgia, Pittsylvania, Virginia.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines 400 to 700 Hyde & Goodrich New Orleans, Louisiana: Rifles H. C. Lamb Jamestown, North Carolina.50 and .58 caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 532 Maynard
Colt M1861 Navy (US – revolver – 1861) Colt M1877 (US – revolver – 1877) Colt M1878 "Frontier" (US – revolver – 1878) Colt M1892 "New Army and Navy" (US – revolver – 1892) Colt model 1839 carbine (USA – rifle – 1838) Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver" Root Revolver" (USA – revolver – c.1855) Colt Model 1871–72 ...
Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Colt Army Model 1860; Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver; Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top; Colt Paterson; Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers; Colt Walker
Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. During this period, Colt received an extension on his patent, since he had not collected fees for it in its early years. In 1849, gun makers James Warner and Massachusetts Arms infringed on the patent. Colt sued the companies, and the court ordered that Warner and Massachusetts Arms cease revolver production.
M1911 and M1911A1 pistols Colt-Thompson Model 1921 with Type C drum magazine. During World War I, Colt surpassed all previous production achievements. John Browning worked for Colt for a time and came up with a design for a semiautomatic pistol, which debuted as the Colt M1900 pistol and eventually evolved into the M1911.
Colt had been criticized for this high price, and by 1865 the revolver was reduced to $14.50 ($289.00 in 2023). The Colt "Army" revolver is to be distinguished from the Colt "Navy" revolver of which there were two models, the octagonal barrel Model 1851 Navy, and the round-barreled Model 1861 Navy, both Navy models being in the smaller .36 ...
Semi-automatic pistol United States: 257,434 Colt Model 1851 Navy: Revolver United States: 257,000 [52] Howa Type 64: Battle rifle Japan: 230,000 [170] Lewis gun: Light machine gun United Kingdom: 202,050 Colt Model 1860 Army: Revolver United States: 200,500 [52] MAB Model D pistol: Semi-automatic pistol France: 200,000+ Škorpion vz. 61 ...