Colt Revolver - Decades TV Network

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Samuel Colt’s Paterson revolver was patented in 1836. The five-shot gun could be fired without reloading and was the first commercial firearm. When the U.S. Military ordered 1,000 for soldiers fighting the Mexican-American War, the gun changed the way the frontier was won.

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