Colt revolver

Western holster staple

A Colt revolver is a handgun made by the Colt's Manufacturing Company, founded by Samuel Colt in the nineteenth century.

Colt's revolvers—featuring a rotating cylinder that aligns successive cartridges with the barrel—became iconic in the American West and remain associated with that era: He wore a Colt revolver on his hip.

The brand name often appears generically for any revolver of similar design.

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