The Story of Self-Loading Pistols[8]

Colt Pistols.

The machine gun of the present day, the murderous weapon which has

numbered its victims by the hundreds of thousands during the European

war, had its origin in the mind of a man whose birth dates back to

almost exactly one hundred years before this war began, that of Samuel

Colt, born at Hartford, Conn., on July 19, 1814.

[Illustration: CUSTER’S LAST STAND