Category Archives: Colt

Colt’s M4/M4A1 royalties appear to have been paid via multiple contracts coinciding with either individual delivery orders or the specific line items from these individual delivery orders. These royalty payments are typically labeled as either purchase orders “P” or as definitive contracts “C”, although recently they have shown up as delivery orders on an preexistingContinue reading “Royalty Payments to Colt for Second-Source M4/M4A1 Contracts”

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”