{"id":2472,"date":"2024-08-19T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:54:47","slug":"the-colt-burgess-rifle-and-samuel-colt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"The Colt Burgess Rifle and Samuel Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Samuel Colt is often remembered as much for his business sense and marketing prowess as he was for his contributions to firearms. His is a story that often is simplified for brevity at the expense of the complexity, as history often does. It\u2019s easier to remember Colt’s \u201cinvention\u201d of the revolver, even if he never claimed to have invented it at all, only improved upon Collier\u2019s design<\/a> (and centuries of earlier inventors such as Artemus Wheeler<\/a>). <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easier to herald the great success of the Peacemaker<\/a> than it is to remember the failures in both Paterson<\/a> and London<\/a>. It is also easier to remember a gun that is still seen and used today, than it is to remember his phenomenal marketing efforts including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n