Colt's Manufacturing Company (CMC--formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is a
United States firearms manufacturer founded in
1847. It is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of dozens of different firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century. It has made many civilian and military designs used in the United States, as well was many other countries. Among the most famous products from Colt are the
Walker Colt used by the
Texas Rangers and the "Colt .45"
revolver, the proper name of which was the
Single Action Army. Later well-known CMC revolvers include the
Colt Python and
Colt Anaconda. John Browning also worked for Colt for a time, and came up with now ubiquitous parallel slide type of design for a pistol, which debuted on the
Colt M1900 pistol, leading to numerous pistol designs including the famous Colt
M1911 pistol. Though they did not develop it, Colt was responsible for M16 production for a long time, as well as many derivative firearms related to it. The most successful and famous of these are numerous M16 Carbines, including the
Colt Commando family, and the
M4 Carbine.
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