![]() In fact Colt merely pulled the tooling from storage to begin production. There were virtually no changes in the model from the last ones made circa 1940. No wonder also that keen minds at Colt saw sales opportunities, and therefore in 1956 reintroduced the SAA. No wonder then that the firearms collecting fraternity and just about every TV watching kid focused on the Colt SAA revolver almost totally to the exclusion of every other Old West handgun. In fact I can’t remember ever seeing either a good-guy or bad-guy with anything but a Peacemaker. There were far too many to detail here but it is safe to say in the holster of each and every one of those “little-screen” stars there resided a Colt SAA revolver. Anyone who lived through the decades of the ‘50s and had a TV must remember the vast assortment of western programs. ![]() ![]() They weren’t considering the new phenomenon of television.
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