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Meet the Gun Makers Behind America’s Best-Selling Revolvers
In 1836, Samuel Colt (founder of Colt Manufacturing) began making the Paterson revolver. By 1855, his business was producing 150 firearms per day, becoming the world's largest gun maker.
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Contract Award: Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC (West Hartford, Connecticut) – $12,400,000
Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut, was awarded a $12,400,000 modification (P00002) to contract ...
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West Hartford’s Colt awarded $12.4M to supply arms to Israel
West Hartford gun maker Colt has been awarded a $12.4 million follow-on contract to make additional weapons to be supplied to Israel. The latest award is a modification to a $26.7 million contract ...
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The Legendary Colt .45: Tracing the Iconic Caliber's Impact on Firearm Evolution
From handguns to icons of the-Colt .45 is etched in popular culture, from its pivotal role in shaping the American West to ...
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Crumbling walls of historic brownstones increasing worry for CT national park. ‘It’s going to get bad’
A pair of brick-and-brownstone buildings at the former Colt firearms complex — structures once at the heart of gun manufacturing in Hartford — have survived 170 years, the now-forlorn ...