The Republic of Texas purchased 180 Colt Paterson model revolvers for the Texas Navy in 1839.
When Samuel Houston disbanded the Texas Navy in 1843, Captain Jack Hays armed his company of Texas Rangers with surplus stocks of the pistols. The repeating handguns became very popular with the Rangers, providing them with sustained firepower against the Comanches.
The Paterson revolver was also decisive in the "Battle of Bandera Pass", where each Ranger had 10 shots at the ready when armed with two pistols. Captains Jack Hays and Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers became major proponents of Colt revolvers.
The Paterson revolver's greatest legacy was that it led Zachary Taylor, as a general in command of the border with Mexico, to send Captain Walker to New York in 1846 to meet with Colt and discuss improvements to the Paterson, which led to the development and deployment of the "Walker Colt" (and the subsequent development of .44 caliber Colt pattern revolvers).
It is a full auto AR 15, but that's not an attachable shoulder stock. It's one of those mass destruction bump stocks. Same stock that was on the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You can really see here how the handgun was originally designed and derived as a miniature Cannon. Those procedures are exactly the same as loading a ship's Cannon or any canon. So people suddenly thought wouldn't it be great if I could hold a tiny cannon in my hand and shoot it. And then they thought how genius they were when they realized they could make a tiny rotating handheld six barrel cannon in their hand and they must have just thought that was the end all and be all. They never imagined the idea that they could put the rounds for a Canon in an artillery shell so that you wouldn't have to load each barrel until much later. And I wonder if that happened with the real Cannon or the handgun first.
It's kind of crazy when you see the progression of thinking that led to modern machinery.
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When Samuel Houston disbanded the Texas Navy in 1843, Captain Jack Hays armed his company of Texas Rangers with surplus stocks of the pistols. The repeating handguns became very popular with the Rangers, providing them with sustained firepower against the Comanches.
The Paterson revolver was also decisive in the "Battle of Bandera Pass", where each Ranger had 10 shots at the ready when armed with two pistols. Captains Jack Hays and Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers became major proponents of Colt revolvers.
The Paterson revolver's greatest legacy was that it led Zachary Taylor, as a general in command of the border with Mexico, to send Captain Walker to New York in 1846 to meet with Colt and discuss improvements to the Paterson, which led to the development and deployment of the "Walker Colt" (and the subsequent development of .44 caliber Colt pattern revolvers).
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You can really see here how the handgun was originally designed and derived as a miniature Cannon. Those procedures are exactly the same as loading a ship's Cannon or any canon. So people suddenly thought wouldn't it be great if I could hold a tiny cannon in my hand and shoot it. And then they thought how genius they were when they realized they could make a tiny rotating handheld six barrel cannon in their hand and they must have just thought that was the end all and be all. They never imagined the idea that they could put the rounds for a Canon in an artillery shell so that you wouldn't have to load each barrel until much later. And I wonder if that happened with the real Cannon or the handgun first.
It's kind of crazy when you see the progression of thinking that led to modern machinery.
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