January 10, 1862

[blackhawknj]

Samuel Colt died aged 47.

[Abe Anglin]

I have mixed feelings about this ... since a war was waging and old Sam was supplying the enemy with arms!!

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god rest him anyway ~

[msheak]

Think what we might have had if he had lived as long as say, John Moses Browning.

[Alk8944]

Think what we might have had if he had lived as long as say, John Moses Browning.

Not a lot! Sam Colt was not the design genius behind most Colt revolvers, there were other engineers such as Elihu Root. After all, all the Colt semi-automatics, including the Woodsman series, were Browning designs, not even in-house engineers.