Essays on Gun Page 2

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814 in Hartford Connecticut to farmer turned businessman Christopher Colt and mother Sarah Colt. The family moved to Connecticut when Samuel was young. Unfortunately, when he was seven years old, his mother Sarah Colt died from tuberculosis. Afterward, his father remarried Olivia Sargent and Samuel had three sisters….

Around the turn of the century, you could order just about anycustom features from firearms amekrs you wanted; they would bend over backward to follow your every request–at a slight increase in cost,naturally. Today, such requests are turned over to in-house custom shops, ifthey have one, and usually the options offered are engraving and specialfinished…

One of the more intriguing projects an arms writer can undertake is comparison testing of a classic gun against a near-identical foreign copy of the same, built with or without the benefit of a license. Interest is especially keen when one “sibling” is said to be “better” than the other; better fitted, better finished, more…