Samuel Hamilton Walker and General Winfield Scott's armies. Walker is best known as the co-inventor of the famous "Walker Colt" revolver, along with arms manufacturer Samuel Colt. Walker is said to have self-funded a trip to New York City to meet with Colt and proposed to him the concept of a weapon based on the then-popular five-shot Colt Paterson revolver, with many enhancements such as adding a sixth round, being powerful enough to kill either a man or a horse with a single shot and quicker to reload . Colt's firearms company was no longer in business, but the large order allowed Colt
Colt New Police Revolver York City (NYPD) Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896 to be the first standard-issue revolver for NYPD officers. A target version was made until 1905 with a 6-inch barrel and adjustable sights. The New Police Revolver was replaced in the Colt catalog in 1907 by the improved Colt Police Positive, which featured an internal hammer block safety and better lock work. Colt New Police Revolver The Colt New Police is a double-action, six-shot revolver (which can also be fired single action). This gun was chambered in the .32 New Police, which is dimensionally identical to a flat-nose version of the