Samuel Colt’s rise looks inevitable in hindsight. It absolutely was not. Before the famous Hartford Empire, before the military contracts, and before the Colt name became shorthand for the American ...

Colt announced that it will stop making AR-15 rifles for civilian sales, but the news might not be a cause for celebration for gun control advocates. The AR-15 is one of the most popular guns and the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Like other inventors, Colt was a forward thinker who didn’t just create the products but considered how to get people to buy them. One of the more surprising facts about ...

The Colt AR-15 is off the market. Colt announced Thursday that it is suspending production of its popular AR-15 rifle for its civilian market. The gunmaker will continue to produce the weapons for its ...

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A Czech firearms company has reached a deal to buy Colt, the iconic American gunmaker that helped popularize the revolver. Česká zbrojovka Group said it will acquire all of Colt’s business for $220 ...

Then when he was 16, his father sent him to the Amherst Academy in Massachusetts to study navigation after noticing his high aptitude. While attending school, he continued to experiment heavily with ...

Firearms manufacturer Colt says it is suspending production of its popular AR-15 semi-automatic assault-style rifle for the civilian market, saying it will concentrate instead on fulfilling contracts ...