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Colt New Army & Navy Revolver

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:54.535Z

Spent some time going down a rabbit hole on the M1892 this week — the gun that essentially built the template for every DA revolver sitting in your safe right now. Worth talking about. Every double-action revolver you pick up today descends from the mechanical logic Colt put into production in 1889. That includes your GP100, your 686, your LCR. The swing-out cylinder, the simultaneous ejection, the left-side release — Colt worked all of that out in the 1880s and nobody's fundamentally chang...

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Colt New Army & Navy Revolver

The Colt New Army & Navy Revolver—most commonly identified by its 1892 model designation—holds a specific and consequential place in American military history: it was the first double-action revolver with a swing-out cylinder ever issued as standard

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