Rolling out with the advertising slogan, “God made all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal,” the Colt revolver has since go on to be one of the primary symbols of the settlement of the American West. With its revolutionary revolving chamber, it was able to fire six shots without reloading (hence “six-shooter”) where most infantry rifles required reloading after each shot. Additionally its relatively small size made it usable by women, children and really anyone who could lift it. For better or worse, the days of high capacity, rapid fire, hand-held weapons were upon us.
