**revolver facts** * The very first Colt Single Action Army (serial #1 ) was thought lost for years and later found in a barn in Nashua, New Hampshire. * Colt was legally blocked from making cartridge revolvers until 1869 due to Smith & Wesson’s Rollin White patent on bored-through cylinders. * The U.S. Army issued both Colt and Smith & Wesson .45 revolvers, but their ammunition wasn’t interchangeable, causing major logistics problems. * The famous “Artillery Model” wasn’t actually an artillery-