The Peacemaker

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Today in history: 19 July 1814

Samuel Colt, born on this date, was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Hartford, Connecticut. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.


Colt .45 Peacemaker — 1873, cost: $17.00
The Colt Peacemaker became known as “the gun that won the West”, a .45-caliber firearm with six revolving cylinders, hence the nickname “six-shooter.”

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[B][COLOR="DarkGreen"]a .45-caliber firearm with six revolving cylinders, hence the nickname “six-shooter.”

You mean a single revolving cylinder with 6 chambers?

[Holly]

You mean a single revolving cylinder with 6 chambers?

Yes, you could put it that way.
The previous model had only five chambers but the Texas Rangers placed an order for 1,000 on condition that a sixth was added. Cowboys normally loaded five, leaving the sixth empty where the hammer was so that there would be no accidental firing.

[Priz]

Peacemaker seems an odd name for a gun

[Kev Bar]

Peacemaker seems an odd name for a gun

No more so than "Pacification" for search and destroy.

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the Texas Rangers placed an order for 1,000 on condition that a sixth was added.

Yes, that sounds very much like Chuck Norris.

[homer]

Back in the days when cowboy films were simpler ( bad guys - beards and black hats, good guys clean shaven, white hats, good girls with dresses buttoned up to the neck, no bad girls ) the Colt often fired 10 or 12 shots without reloading. Every good guys shot deadlyt accurate.

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The LGM-118A Peacekeeper, also known as the MX missile

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Peacemaker seems an odd name for a gun

Si vis pacem, para bellum

[Holly]

Back in the days when cowboy films were simpler ( bad guys - beards and black hats, good guys clean shaven, white hats, good girls with dresses buttoned up to the neck, no bad girls ) the Colt often fired 10 or 12 shots without reloading. Every good guys shot deadlyt accurate.

It would have seemed so to a boy in the woodeners but Marshall Kane wore a black hat, had two peacemakers and is shown reloading one, and yes, his pacifist Quaker wife is modestly dressed but could handle a Colt well enough to to eliminate one of Frank Miller's gang while he is reloading two empty guns.

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