Colt Guns
Famous American gunsmith Samuel Colt plied his trade throughout the 1800s, making "Colt" a household name around the world - a quality that remains to this day.
1958
The ArmaLite / Colt AR-15 is one of the most favored automatic rifle systems in the world today. The type is considerably enj...
1969
The M203 is a single-shot, reusable 40mm grenade launcher designed to extend the reach of the standard infantryman, allowing ...
1990
Continuing the Colt tradition of excellent revolvers named after snakes, the concern delivered their impressive "big boy" Col...
1984
The C7 assault rifle stemmed from the Canadian decision to go with the NATO 5.56mm cartridge as the standard ammunition of th...
1988
The Diemaco (now Colt Canada) C8 is the "assault carbine" form of the C7 - the C7 being the standard-issue assault rifle of t...
1966
Despite its caliber, the Colt Commando is classified as a submachine gun and was developed from the successful AR-15. The AR-...
1848
The Colt "Dragoon" (meaning "Dragon" in French) was the brainchild of Samuel Colt himself and went on to become one of his mo...
1983
The M16A2 became the follow up design to the much-maligned M16 debuting with American forces from 1959 onwards (particularly ...
1990
The M16A4 is the fourth incarnation of the now-successful M16 series of automatic assault rifles. The M16 system that debuted...
1911
The Colt model M1911 series of pistols is one of the most successful small arms designs of the 20th Century - and in all of w...
1994
The M4/M4A Carbine is a 5.56mm compact, lightweight, gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed weapon system with selective fire...
1993
The M4A1 SOPMOD is a derivative model of the base M4 Carbine of the United States military. The M4 Carbine itself is a compac...
1986
The MEU(SOC) represents the ultimate evolution of the M1911 Colt system which appeared in the early 1900's and developed into...
1849
The Colt Model 1849 "Pocket Revolver" was Colt's answer when replacing their "Baby Dragoon" series of guns. Unbeknownst to Co...
1851
At the end of the 1840's Samuel Colt was hard at work designing a new revolver of .36 caliber, this design becoming the famou...
1855
Early Colt revolvers operated from what was known as an "open frame" design meaning that there was no supporting structure se...
1855
The Colt Revolving Rifle of 1855 - aptly named the "Model 1855" - was an attempt to provide the repeating action of a revolvi...
1860
Colt brought about their New Army Model revolver in 1860 and it quickly proved itself the definitive combat revolver of the t...
1861
Design of the Colt Model 1861 Navy was not unlike Colt's previous "Navy" offering - the Model 1851 Navy - and was essentially...
1862
The success of the original Colt Model 1851 Navy (sold in 215,000 examples) provided the foundation for the Model 1862 Pocket...
1862
The Colt Model 1862 Police percussion revolver was intended for security personnel and followed the design lines of other Col...
1903
The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (or M1903) was a semi-automatic pistol from the long line of firearms developed by fabl...
1917
When the Americans formally entered World War 1 in 1917, they lacked much in the way of viable fighting equipment and this in...
1955
The Colt Python is regarded by many gun purists and firearms experts as quite possibly the finest double-action revolver ever...
1873
The Colt firearms firm certainly hit its stride in the 1800s, helped no doubt by the American Civil War and goings on along t...
1861
The Colt Special Model 1861 Musket was nothing more than a retooled version of the Springfield Model 1861 Musket series. Colt...
1847
Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817-1847) served as a Texas Ranger and within the US military through the violent wars in th...
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