That same year, Colt Firearms announced that their Colt Official Police would also handle ' high-speed '. 38 Special loadings.

* Colt Official M4 Military page and Colt M4 Law Enforcement page

Official Colt historian, RL Wilson described the Colt Python as " the Rolls-Royce of Colt revolvers " and Firearms historian, Ian V. Hogg referred to it as the " best revolver in the world ".

Auric Goldfinger, the villain of the film Goldfinger uses a gold-plated revolver, a Colt Official Police.

* The Colt Revolver in the American West — John Bromfield's Official Police Model

He selected the Colt New Police Revolver in. 32 Colt Caliber as the first standard issue pistol for the NYPD.

*. 32 S & W Long Also known as the. 32 " Colt's New Police " When chambered in Colt revolvers.

*. 32 S & W Long — sometimes called. 32 New Colt Police

*. 38 S & W — sometimes called. 38 Colt New Police and the 38 / 200 in England.

* Colt Police Positive ( D frame )

* Colt Police Positive Special / Viper ( D frame )

By 1908, even Colt was chambering their new Police Positive and New Army revolvers in " 38 Colt Special ", which was nothing more than the standard Smith & Wesson 38 Special with a different headstamp.

File: PMERJ-BOPE4. jpg | The Police Special Operations Battalion of Rio de Janeiro ( BOPE-RJ ) Using the Colt 933 assault rifle while doing an operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The. 38 Colt New Police was Colt's Manufacturing Company's proprietary name for what was essentially the. 38 S & W with a flat-nosed bullet.

Colt called it the. 32 Colt New Police in revolvers it made chambered for the cartridge.

When he was the New York City Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt standardized the department's use of the Colt New Police revolver.

The Colt Cobra is a lightweight, aluminum-framed, double-action short-barrelled revolver chambered in. 38 Special,. 32 Colt New Police, and. 22 LR.

* Lee Marvin carried two Colt Cobras while playing Detective-Lieutenant Frank Balinger of the Chicago Police Department on the TV series M Squad.

For appreciation of Fleming's work Donovan presented Fleming with a. 38 Police Positive Colt revolver with the inscription, " For Special Services.

Colt revolver in her brain.

At that point, Corbett shot Booth with his Colt revolver despite Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's orders that Booth should be taken alive.

The classic combination would be a Winchester lever action carbine and a Colt revolver in. 44-40 or. 38-40.

Kits exist which will convert many pistols into carbines by the addition of a shoulder stock ; notable examples are the long barrelled Colt Buntline revolver stock, the Mauser C96 " Broomhandle " holster / stock, and various others for models such as the Browning Hi-Power, Luger, Colt M1911, and the Heckler & Koch VP70.

* 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

A Colt Single Action Army revolver

* 1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

Ruger Vaquero single-action. 357 Magnum revolver ; modeled after the Colt Single Action Army

The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836.

Among these are the. 22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters ;. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum, known for its police use ; the. 44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " films ; and the. 45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West.

The loading gate on the original Colt designs ( and on nearly all single-action revolvers since, such as the famous Colt Single Action Army ) is on the right side, which was done to facilitate loading while on horseback ; with the revolver held in the left hand, the cartridges can easily be ejected and loaded with the right.

Colt Anaconda. 44 Magnum double-action revolver

An " automatic revolver " in this context is one which extracts empty fired cases " automatically ," i. e., upon breaking open the action, rather than requiring manual extraction of each case individually with a sliding rod or pin ( as in the Colt Single Action Army design ).

In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a revolver mechanism that led to the widespread use of the revolver.

According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan winch, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder.

Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.

Another revolver patent was issued to Samuel Colt on August 29, 1839.

Image: Anaconda-500. jpg | Colt Anaconda. 44 Magnum revolver

Image: Colt New Service 1370. jpg | Colt New Service revolver

* The regional economy of southeast Alaska: final report / prepared for Alaska Conservation Foundation ; prepared by Steve Colt, Darcy Dugan, Ginny Fay ( EcoSystems ).

Conversely, rifle bullets can pierce light armor and are easier to shoot accurately, but even a carbine such as the Colt M4 is larger and / or longer than a submachine gun, making it harder to maneuver in close quarters.

In 2011, the asking / selling price of a near-impeccable ten-barrel Model 1883 Colt Gatling Gun in perfect working order, with carriage and 105 round cartridge, was over $ 300, 000 USD.

Their record of 64 – 97 was far worse than even the expansion Colt. 45's, but not as bad as the 2011 Astros ( 56 – 106 ) and the 2012 Astros ( 52 – 105 as of 9 / 28 / 2012 ).

The M16 rifle design, including variant or modified version of it such as the Armalite / Colt AR-15 series, AAI M15 rifle ; AP74 ; EAC J-15 ; SGW XM15A ; any 22-caliber rimfire variant, including the Mitchell M16A-1 / 22, Mitchell M16 / 22, Mitchell CAR-15 / 22, and AP74 Auto Rifle, is a prohibited and restricted weapon in Canada.

Colt ACR / M16A2E2 fitted with C79 optical sight | ELCAN C79 scope ( second from top to bottom )

* Colt M1911 / A1 ( U. S Lend-Lease ), Nationalists

He became the first player to play for all four MLB original expansion teams: the Mets, Angels, Houston Colt. 45s / Astros and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers.

M4 carbine, Colt Canada C7 / C8 ), the SIG 550, or the Heckler & Koch G36.

For private soldiers and noncommissioned officers, this meant the M1892 / 98 Springfield ( Krag ) bolt action rifle in. 30 Army (. 30-40 ) caliber: " They succeeded in getting their cartridges, revolvers ( Colt. 45 ), clothing, shelter-tents, and horse gear ... and in getting the regiment armed with the Krag-Jorgensen carbine used by the regular cavalry.

In 1993, a model called Proton Wira was introduced based on the Mitsubishi Lancer / Colt.

The 3-door hatchback and 4-door sedan were rebadged Mitsubishi Mirages, and the station wagon ( badged as either an Eagle Vista, or a Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista ) was a rebadged Mitsubishi Chariot.

The 1991-1996 sedan was a rebadged Dodge / Plymouth Colt.

The United States was adopting new firearms at a phenomenal rate ; several new handguns and two all-new service rifles ( the M1892 / 96 / 98 Krag and M1895 Navy Lee ), as well as a series of revolvers by Colt and Smith & Wesson for the Army and Navy, were adopted just in that decade.

The rifles in use by the team are the Colt M16A2, Colt CAR-15A2 Model 777, M4 / M4A1 5. 56mm carbines, M14 7. 62mm, and H & K HK33E 5. 56mm assault rifles.