Colt's Manufacturing Company

To the victim of an accident.

Here lies the body of James Hambrick Which was accidentally shot In the Pakist River by a young man With one of Colt's large revolvers With no stopper for the hand to rest on It was one of the old-fashioned sort Brass-mounted and of such is the kingdom of Heaven.

William Curtis, who was famous for his bad grammar, may have composed his own epitaph.

Here lies William Curtis Our late Lord Mayor Who has left this world and gone to that there.

He slept in his Mill Valley house with one of his many guns on his nightstand.

His Colt 45, which was predictably there one evening when he woke violently to the sound of breaking glass, his pregnant girlfriend freaking out by his side, and armed men in ski masks standing over his bed.

Prime Big Deal Days is October sixth and seventh.

These deals are so appealing, like portable steamers for steaming.

Her mind immediately went back to all the training Crosby had given her, where they kept the guns and how to load them and how to shoot them and how to count the rounds as the weapon was fired, and what to do if someone ever broke into their place like those crazy Manson freaks broke into the Love House on Cielo.

The two put their training into action.

Crosby grabbed the Colt 45 from his bedside table, rolled out of bed, put the masked man in the crosshairs, and fired.

He missed.

Instead, he drew with his right hand as he extended his left arm forward.

He then placed his gun, a Navy Colt revolver, across his left forearm, which allowed him to aim the weapon.

[gunshot] Tutt's shot, unsurprisingly, went wild, probably hitting a 7-Eleven somewhere down the street, as so many fired from the hip did.

[gunshot] [man groans] A moment later, a red bloom appeared on his chest.

The notion that there were men wandering the American West shooting each other for business and pleasure.

This is the moment when the whole idea of the Old West gunfighter was born.

Every Western gunfight you've ever seen in some movie or TV show, every gunfight maybe you've read about in Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey novels, every gunfight you've ever heard of, you can trace it all to that day when Hickok laid a Navy Colt across his arm and shot Davis Tutt through the heart.

And Hickok's massive fibs aside, the idea of the gunfighter endured because there was so much truth behind it.

If you want to tr- it, look, men who, um, consider themselves men is gonna have a very difficult time accepting this as a sex item, which is what it is.

I mean, when, like if I go to a convenience store and it would be like Colt 45, what's gonna be on the Colt 45? A woman in a bra.

[laughs]

Right.

Right? It's their product, right? Buy Coke, look at women, or buy, you know, this Colt 45, here's a very attractive woman.

It's what it is.

They want to sex it up.

It's not your base, it's not your audience.

Far as I know, it hadn't been invented yet.

But it was a Colt chambering.

It was just really weak.

So they would, those Moros would run up with a machete or a spear.

The three .45 caliber cartridge cases recovered from Noelle's apartment had all been fired from the same weapon.

The firearms examiner determined that the gun could have been a Colt, a Kimber, or a US military-type .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

The bullets recovered during the postmortem examinations, along with the projectile found inside the apartment, were all .45 automatic hollow points and had all been fired from the same gun.

The ammunition discovered in Mark's closet was a different make from the spent cartridge cases found at the scene.

I think I can see him still as he arose from his chair after a profound study of the case before him and wrote a prescription so circumlocutory in its effect that it sent a servant half a mile to his friend, the druggist, for articles she might have found in her own kitchen, aqua pumpagenis and sugar being the sole ingredients required.

The doctor had started business in our village as a veterinary surgeon, my boy, but as the entire extent of his practice for six months in that line was a call to mend one of Colt's revolvers, he finally turned his attention to the ailings of his fellows and wrought many cures with sugar and water Latinized.

At first, my father did not patronize the new doctor, having very little faith in the efficacy of sugar and water without the addition of certain other composite often seen in bottles.

But the doctor's neat speech at a Sunday school festival won his heart at last.