Category Archives: Colt

Cold showed some of their new offerings of the 1911 set up for red dot sights.

I fellow on Instagram some how found an original shipping box. Picture is worth saving,

Boy these two pictures are neat. The Cover thumbnail is an old issue. and below is a still NIB sporter with the tag on it. How about that price? 189 bucks!

In 1963 Colt made a gold plated XM16E1 rifle, the 50,000th produced (Serial number SN# 050000) as a gift intended for US President John F Kennedy. However, Colt was not able to present the gun to JFK due to his untimely assassination in November of that same year. The gun would instead be donated toContinue reading “John F Kennedy’s undelivered gold plated M-16 (1963)”

By Kevin O’Brien This memo’s been around as a scanned, non-OCR’d .pdf for a long time. We’ve OCR’d the PDF, and double-checked the numbers against the original data. The PDF is here:M16 Serial Number List OCR[.pdf]. The complete text is below this editorial comment. We would add the following remarks: We hope this document isContinue reading “Colt AR15 and M16 Serial Numbers, 1960-1972”

I mentioned the Colt ACE 2 the other day and have been thinking about it on and off ever since. The ACE was an updated conversion slide , barrel and magazine for using a .22 long rifle. It was made to work with the series 80 guns. The original was the ACE and was originallyContinue reading “Colt ACE & ACE II”