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How Colt and Kalashnikov revolutionized weapons manufacturing

Long before Henry Ford, Samuel Colt is the true father of mass production. Ironically, it was the inadequacy of Soviet ...
The history.--An outline of the antique and obsolete models of Colt arms and their several variations.--A number of documents contemporaneous to the manufacture of Colt arms, from 1832 to ...
Today Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC is a subsidiary of the Czech holding company Česká zbrojovka Group (CZ), but it was the company that truly built the American firearms industry. Its success ...
A prime mystery of World War II is Hartford’s famed Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Colt, as the biggest of all prewar U.S. gunmakers, had a backlog of $30,000,000 in orders when war came.