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God’s gunsmith: How Samuel Colt’s wife reinvented him as a Protestant hero

Samuel Colt is mythologized as the God-fearing man who invented the revolver. Some argue that it is ironic that a pious man of God was able to create instruments of war. That's even in Colt's slogan. “God created humans. Sam Colt made them equal.” Colt learned a lot about marketing from his days as a […]