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Colt House Revolver
Colt House Revolver
| Colt House Revolver | |
|---|---|
| Type | Revolver |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Production history | |
| Designed | 1870/71 |
| Manufacturer | Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company |
| Produced | 1871–1876 |
| Specifications | |
| Cartridge | .41 Rimfire |
| Action | Single-action revolver |
| Feed system | 4-5-shot Cylinder |
A view of a Cloverleaf Model Revolver
.41 rimfire
The Colt House Revolver (also called, in its alternate 4-round capacity model, the Cloverleaf) was one of the first metallic cartridge rear-loading revolve
The same year, Colt’s also patented the Colt Open Top, another metallic cartridge rear-loader, but in fact the Open Top production didn’t start until 1872, although a pocket version of the Open Top, a completely different design, went on sales as of 1871, the Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver.[1]
The Colt House Revolver was manufactured from 1871 to 1876 in two different models: the Colt House Model itself and the Colt Cloverleaf Model, the latter being the most produced of both.[1]
The House Model is also known among collectors as the Jim Fisk model or the Jim Fisk pistol, since it attained the infamy of being the gun used in the murder of James Fisk in January 1872.[2]
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Anatomy and specifications
Both models, House and Cloverleaf, were built around a solid hidden spur-trigger frame, a weapon architecture also used by another Colt gun, the Colt Sidehammer (1855).
The Sidehammer had a flat-ended grip, while the House and Cloverleaf models had all of them a recognizable “bird’s-head” grip.
These features (spur trigger, “birds-head” grips, etc.) were common on many small pistols and revolvers during that era, such as the classic 2-shot “derringer” pistol.[3]
Finally, both models, House and Cloverleaf, were chambered with .41 caliber rimfire cartridges, available in both long and short sizes. The main differences between the two models were the following:[1]
Cylinder
- The House Model, also called the Jim Fisk Model, had a five rounds straight non-fluted cylinder.[4]
- The Cloverleaf Model had a four rounds fluted cylinder. When viewed from front or rear the cylinder seemed to resemble a four-leaf clover, hence the moniker.
Barrel
- The House Model was less produced of the two and had no variant development. It was produced in a single item product with a 2-5/8″ barrel.
- The Cloverleaf Model was more produced by far, and had two different variants, depending on the barrel length: 1-1/2″ and 3″. The 1-1/2″ barrel length variant had an ejector rod contained within the center pin of the cylinder, allowing to reload while keeping the cylinder in the gun. The 3″ barrel length variant of the Cloverleaf had the ejector in the same axis of the cylinder center pin and, thus, the cylinder needed to be removed from the frame when loading.[5]
Influences in later Colt firearms
The Colt New Line (1873) inherited the general shape of the Colt House: a bird’s head grip and a solid spur-trigger frame.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Flayderman, Norm (2007). Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. pp. 103–105. ISBN 1-4402-2651-
2. - Jump up^ Chapel, Charles Edward (19 September 2013). Guns of the Old West: An Illustrated Guide. Courier Dover Publications. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-486-42161-2
. - Jump up^ Tarr, James (18 November 2013). Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. pp. 60–63. ISBN 978-1-4402-
3747-8. - Jump up^ Outlet; Publishing, Rh Value (12 December 1988). Guns of the World. New York: Random House Value Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-517-22518-9.
- Jump up^ Hogg, Ian; Walter, John (29 August 2004). Pistols of the World. David & Charles. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-87349-460-1.
- Jump up^ Sapp, Rick (2007). Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms. Iola, Wisconsin: F+W Media, Inc. pp. 64–66. ISBN 0-89689-534-3.
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was all about the Second Amendment before he was shot last year. Today he’s still all about the right to keep and bear arms.
That’s what Scalise said on television during an interview with a “surprised” Whoopi Goldberg. She said he doesn’t “have an idea that there may be some more gun control that we need to work on with stuff like this.”
Scalise was one of many Republicans targeted at the 2017 Congressional baseball practice shooting. He told her that he’s gotten that question a lot since and that his stance remains unwavering.
“Three and a half months later I came back to Congress and got to get back to work again and I had people that would ask me, ‘You know so are your views different on gun control?’”
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Scalise said that people need to treat violence as a health issue in addition to enforcing existing gun control.
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He affirmed his position by citing the landmark Heller decision, which holds that people have a fundamental right to own guns for lawful purposes including self-defense.
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Bruce McLaughlin Jr. is shown in an undated photo provided by the Pickens County, S.C., Sheriff’s Office.
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