Colt Defense, LLC is apparently having trouble paying off its loans. BusinessWeek reports: Colt Defense LLC is seeking capital to stave off an “expected default” next month as gunmakers suffer from lower defense spending and as consumers purchase fewer firearms. The [Read More…]
Colt is introducing a rifle family based on the CM 901 series of rifles, intended to increase modularity and the ease with which one rifle can be converted into another caliber. From the press release: Colt’s Manufacturing Company, one of the world’s leading [Read More…]
We first blogged about Canada replacing the Lee-Enfield rifle, used by the Rangers, a reserve unit that patrols the far north, back in 2011. It seems the Canadian Army is still talking about replacing the aging rifles but not doing a whole lot of actual replacing. [Read More…]
Liberty Ammunition was showing their new 10mm and 45 Colt loads at the 2014 NASGW show. The ammo is part of the company’s Civil Defense line. The 10mm load is rated at 2,400 fps, while the 45 Colt is listed as good for 1,800 fps. The Civil Defense line of [Read More…]
An old video but an interesting one. HK tests their HK416 with a very specific test. Submerging it under water and then shooting it immediately after coming out of the water. The results for the Colt were surprising. Although the safety measures taken for the Colt kind [Read More…]
Edward O took this photo at a Canadian Army exercise. He wrote … A Canadian Forces soldier fires his C7 rifle during a live-fire exercise in Suffield, Alberta. The rifle is outfitted with an Elcan C79 optic and an M203 40mm launcher. The ground is charred from [Read More…]
What do you do when you need a full-heft, realistically-recoiling .22 caliber training pistol? Why, call up convicted murderer David Marshall (later called “Carbine”) Williams, of course! The 1930s were a different time, when convicts were encouraged to use [Read More…]
Colt marked its founder’s 200th birthday by donating a O1991Z 1911 Commemorative Pistol to The Museum of Connecticut History at The Connecticut State Library. We are honored to donate this special commemorative firearm to the outstanding collection [Read More…]
X-Products, known for their 50 round drum magazines and now infamous for the Can Cannon, is now shipping the X-15-9mm drum magazine for Colt-pattern weapons. X-Products touts it as the “most compact 9mm drum magazine on the market.” Built entirely from metal [Read More…]
Colt Canada announced they will begin selling two rifles bearing the Diemaco name to the public. The SA15.7 and SA20 will be sold through The Korth Group. The semi-automatic rifles will be chambered in 5.56 NATO, and will come with cold rotary hammer forged barrels [Read More…]
Colt has announced the release and first order of the CK901 7.62×39 direct impingement AR-AK hybrid (not to be confused with the ARAK-21 from Faxon). The weapon systems has been ordered by the Yemeni Republican Guard as a replacement for their current AK-47 [Read More…]
Colt Canada is advertising an L119A2 variant of their L119 rifle intended for UK special forces. The rifle features a monolithic upper receiver, new prong flash hider, ambidextrous controls, and a partial 1913 rail handguard. No word yet on whether these rifles have [Read More…]
Yes, you read that right. A Colt 1911 chambered in .38 Special. Not .38 Super, but .38 Special. A customer brought this gun into my local gun shop and was looking for ammo to feed it. Luckily he brought some of his old ammo with him. The Colt 1911 belonged to his father [Read More…]
Colt Canada intends to release semi-automatic versions of its C7 rifles and C8 carbines on the Canadian commercial market under the Diemaco name sometime this summer. The rifles and carbines will be categorized as “restricted” under Canadian law. The C7 and [Read More…]
Colt is now selling upper receiver kits in various lengths. From the press release: WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (May 8, 2014) – Colt’s Manufacturing Company, oneof the world’s leading designers, developers and manufacturers offirearms, is now offering complete upper [Read More…]
Thanks to Mr. Revolverguy for sending this to us. He reviews Colt’s new Wiley Clapp Lightweight Commander Talo exclusive. He sums it up with “Everything you need, with nothing you don’t.” Check out his review over at Day at the Range.
Four years ago, frustrated after having a bad experience with an Armalite AR-180B, I purchased a Colt 6920 rifle from a gun store in Northwest Louisiana, which I was passing through at the time. Since then, I have put close to five thousand rounds of steel-cased [Read More…]
A well placed source just told us that Colt is buying LWRC for $60 million. The deal is supposed to close on 1 March. The Maryland company may relocate to Florida or Texas and the LWRC M6 Individual Carbine (M6IC) rifle will become a Colt branded product. Richard [Read More…]
Colt’s LE6920 is the company’s base lightweight law enforcement model. Like so many other products on display at SHOT, it comes in color schemes besides standard tactical black. LE6920MPATAC with Magpul MOE furniture in A-TACS camo: And the LE6920MP-USA in [Read More…]
The Colt SWORD (Sniper Weapon & Observer Reconnaissance Devices) Technology Demonstrator connects a variety of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) and MOTS (Military Off-The-Shelf) components together into a deployable package. The system is hard to describe in a single [Read More…]
The 1911 needs no introduction. As the standard service pistol for the U.S. Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985, the 1911 served our country for a literal lifetime. This storied heritage of performance, in combination with the 1911’s ubiquity, translated to a [Read More…]
Umarex USA will sell 499 individually numbered Colt 1911 WWII Commemorative Edition airguns at the 2014 SHOT Show. The slides will have an engraving on an aged metal finish. A 500th gun (serial number 1) will be given away in a drawing. Only dealers buying a gun [Read More…]
I’m really not an AR sort of guy. Sure, I’ve handled and shot a bunch of them, but they never really jumped out at me as really cool guns. Probably because they are the most popular rifle design in the US, and I tend to be more interested in the weird and [Read More…]
At the AUSA Expo a Colt Advanced Piston Carbine (APC) was on display with a new monolithic upper. Instead of the regular Colt APC quad rail, this version only has a picatinny rail along the top. It is tapped and drilled for picatinny rail sections, or other compatible [Read More…]
MAC has produced a video review on his Colt USMC M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistol. Apparently Colt is only producing eighty of these each month for the civilian market …
The long awaited Colt LE901-16S 5.56mm conversion kit has finally gone on sale at Colt’s online store. The kit allows owners of the .308 Win. Colt LE901-16S rifle to use standard mil-spec 5.56×45 NATO upper receivers. Included in the kit is a magwell block, [Read More…]
One time when I was off training duty, while my friend took over teaching for an hour, I was walking the area scoping out any and all firearms I came across when this beauty caught my eye as it was the only "American type" weapon we had seen other than a few M1 [Read More…]
Colt has added two new bolt actions to their high-end Colt M2012 line. The M2012MT308T is chambered in .308 Win. and the M2012LT308G is chambered in .260 Remington. They will both retail for $2,795. From the press release … Colt, in conjunction with Cooper [Read More…]
Those of you with great memories will recall that Colt announced in 2011 that they were opening a factory in Florida. Richard Johnson has been investigating what became of this factory … According to news reports, Colt’s Manufacturing has yet to take possession [Read More…]
Owners of the Colt LE901-16S Multi-Caliber Carbine have been unhappy that Colt has not been selling 5.56mm conversion kits that would allow them to actually use the carbine’s much talked about multi-caliber abilities. We contacted Colt’s PR folks and they [Read More…]
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