Five - bullet pistol invented 184 years ago

The operating principle of the Colt gun was not new, but it was more practical than all the revolvers until then.

The U.S. Army and navy included Colt's revolver in its standard weapons arsenal, which affected the use of this weapon by other army units.

The Colt weapons plant at Patterson, New Jersey State, produced thousands of such pistols until 1841, when the second version of Walter Colt, the largest bullet - bullet pistol of the calibre, was released.

The new pistol Walter Colt, weighing about two pounds [1 kg] and the 23cm long throat, was said to have resembled an artillery ball.