Colt pistols, and other Colt firearms, are made by Colt's Manufacturing Company, headquartered in New Hartford, Connecticut.  In 1836 Samuel Colt founded Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, now named Colt's Manufacturing Company, or more simply, Colt.  Colt pistols are just one of the many types of firearms they have produced since that time; others include revolvers, rifles, submachine guns and grenade launchers.  Three of the most famous Colt products, are the Colt .45 revolver, sometimes known as the Peacemaker, the M1911 Colt pistol and the Walker Colt, the largest and most powerful black powder repeating handgun ever made.  Although they did not design it, for a time, Colt was primarily responsible for the M16 rifle production.

First of the Colt pistols, with production beginning in 1900, was the Colt M1900, which introduced  the .38 ACP, the round for which it is chambered (not to be confused with the smaller .380 ACP).  This Colt Pistol was was developed from John M. Browning's earlier prototypes in the late 1890s, and after omitting the front bushing, would become the M1911 pistol.  Whether it was Colt revolvers, Colt pistols, Colt rifles or one of their many other products, the Colt name was popular with military, law enforcement and civilians alike.

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