Posted on 06/16/2021 11:05:33 AM PDT by PROCON
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last weekend signed a resolution forwarded to his desk by the Texas lawmakers that makes the original 1847 Colt Walker the official handgun of the Lone Star State.
The measure, HCR 15, was filed last December by state Rep. Ben Leman, R-Andersonville, and unanimously passed the House Committee on Culture, Recreation & Tourism before sailing through the legislature as a whole. Abbott signed it Saturday, promising that, "I'll be signing more gun laws real soon."
A hulking 4.5-pound 44-caliber revolver, the Walker was so-named after famed Texas Ranger Capt. Samuel Walker, and only about 1,100 of the handguns were manufactured by Eli Whitney for Colt. Some 1,000 were sent to Texas and 100 made for the commercial market. The gun was a collaboration between Walker and Colt, based on the latter's earlier .36-caliber Paterson design, a five-shot revolver that weighed only half of what the Model 1847 would.
HCR 15 found that:
-The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was historically crucial to the early survival of the great State of Texas.
-The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was an essential tool in the defeat of the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War to reclaim Texas, the 28th state of the Union.
-The co-inventor of the original 1847 Colt Walker pistol, Samuel Walker, was a captain in the Texas Rangers, the first state police agency in the country.
-The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was America's first pistol to hold six rounds, otherwise known as a "six-shooter."
-The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol is still the most powerful black powder pistol in existence.
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Cause everyone in Tzu knows what an 1847 colt is and they’re just everywhere.
Texas.
Always wanted to shoot that hog leg :-))
Clint had one before Dirty Harry carried a Model 29...Good Bad Ugly?
Washington States is a dildo.
LOL, only on the West side of the state; out here on the other side of the Cascades it's any Glock, they're everywhere.
Yes They Are!
I have several
and they Are Bitchen!
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God Bless Texas!
Should’ve been the Patterson or the dragoon. Those were much more important.
As much as the Texas government is on autosuck to China and just let them buy 280 square miles of land maybe you were right the first time.
Pretty busy gun for something that only 1100 were made.
.....this month’s issue (June/July 2021) of The American Rifleman has a write-up of a new book by Charles W. Pate, “The Colt Walker Army Revolver.” looks like a really good book, well-researched....the darned pistol weighed in at 4 lbs 8 ounces....what a true “hog-leg” ......only 1,200 were ever made, however....
"I'm proud to accept this honor today...wait, what?"
Indiana has an official state firearm. It predates the revolving handgun. The Gatling Gun was considered.
Is that one of them automatics? Where does the klip go.
Is that one of them automatics? Where does the klip go.
In a way it's automatic; if your first shot hits them, they're automatically dead!
Forget awarding “the keys to the city”, award them a Colt Walker.
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