1
00:00:08,970 --> 00:00:14,350
So this is kind of wild because this is
an October 1941 price list. And then it

2
00:00:14,350 --> 00:00:18,850
goes right into a 1946 price list.

3
00:00:19,190 --> 00:00:23,590
That sort of tells a story right there,
which is we enter World War II and

4
00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:27,730
basically just stop printing price lists
and stop printing catalogs and stop

5
00:00:27,730 --> 00:00:31,470
focusing at all on, you know, these
commercial products.

6
00:00:34,130 --> 00:00:35,610
This is super cool.

7
00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,540
This is the post -World War II letter
that went out with the catalog,

8
00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:43,340
saying, hey, we're back in the
commercial business.

9
00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,620
For five years, our entire production of
guns was delivered to the government in

10
00:00:47,620 --> 00:00:48,780
furtherance of the war effort.

11
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,300
We are indeed happy to announce that we
have resumed the production of Colt

12
00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:57,220
pistols and revolvers for civilian use.

13
00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:00,780
Really add to the legacy.

14
00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,000
He kind of brings it to life and paints
a picture that here we have this company

15
00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,740
that's so intertwined with American
history.

16
00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:13,780
Wow.

17
00:02:01,770 --> 00:02:03,190
It never leaves you as an artist.

18
00:02:03,390 --> 00:02:04,770
I mean, it comes home with me every
night.

19
00:02:06,370 --> 00:02:07,790
The elements of the piece.

20
00:02:09,870 --> 00:02:11,410
4 .15, the alarm goes off.

21
00:02:12,190 --> 00:02:15,010
I have to leave by 5 up in the
Berkshires in Massachusetts.

22
00:02:15,750 --> 00:02:21,290
That's where I grew up, and so my family
is over 100 miles a day, every day.

23
00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:24,350
Sometimes 12 -hour days with a commute.

24
00:02:25,490 --> 00:02:29,210
Mainly on the ride in, I try to refresh
my mind on what I'm working on.

25
00:02:30,470 --> 00:02:33,070
The floor is always busy. Usually people
are already here working.

26
00:02:34,810 --> 00:02:38,010
Floor workers are here before we get
started here in Custom Shop.

27
00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:44,370
I'm in, unload my tools out of my bag.

28
00:02:46,130 --> 00:02:49,350
There's not a lot of them. There's just
a few tools, but I do it traditionally.

29
00:02:50,330 --> 00:02:51,750
Chisels and push scravers.

30
00:02:52,610 --> 00:02:53,610
Set things up.

31
00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:55,830
Staring at the work a little bit.

32
00:02:59,630 --> 00:03:05,470
Get my coffee out of my thermos, pour me
a cup of coffee, and start getting

33
00:03:05,470 --> 00:03:06,470
focused on the day.

34
00:03:09,610 --> 00:03:13,550
Some of these pieces take hours and
hours, weeks and weeks.

35
00:03:13,830 --> 00:03:18,490
Everything as simple as someone's
initials on a piece, inscriptions,

36
00:03:18,490 --> 00:03:22,670
that nature, all the way into 24 -karat
gold inlay, very exhibition -level

37
00:03:22,670 --> 00:03:23,670
pieces.

38
00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,660
I love listening to classical music
while I'm working.

39
00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:38,060
It gets me really relaxed and focused on
the work itself.

40
00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,080
Putting the tools on the steel and
getting the feel, that's the biggest

41
00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,880
engraving. One of the biggest parts is
that feel of the tool and the steel

42
00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:50,880
actually cutting.

43
00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,900
Every time I put the chisel down, you
want to make the perfect cut.

44
00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,700
And it doesn't always happen that way.

45
00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,960
Things in the metal can change, and just
your position, how you're holding and

46
00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,340
things can make things not go as you
planned when you first are making the

47
00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,280
As you're pushing, there's resistance,
and you're putting forward.

48
00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:16,100
If you put too much, you'll slip. It'll
fly out, as we call.

49
00:04:17,339 --> 00:04:18,680
Or the tool could break.

50
00:04:19,850 --> 00:04:22,430
There's a lot of different machines out
there that can do really tremendous

51
00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:26,110
things these days, but it doesn't have
the nuances and all the details that

52
00:04:26,110 --> 00:04:30,050
comes from an artist on the piece. It's
just like you could think of a paint -by

53
00:04:30,050 --> 00:04:32,590
-number compared to a really fine piece
of art.

54
00:04:36,650 --> 00:04:39,370
Yeah, it's very fulfilling creating
these pieces.

55
00:04:39,670 --> 00:04:44,450
You know, there's no bigger name in our
industry, handgun -wise, as Colt.

56
00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:47,850
And the history of this place.

57
00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:52,960
and continuing the legacy here has a
special place in my heart.

58
00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,980
So in 1836, Samuel Colt built the first
factory in Patterson, New Jersey.

59
00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:06,380
It was a failure. He opened the factory,
and it closed down just a few years

60
00:05:06,380 --> 00:05:10,500
later. But he was just one of those
people who figured out a way.

61
00:05:11,690 --> 00:05:17,550
There's a pretty extensive Colt
collection that shows the progression of

62
00:05:17,550 --> 00:05:21,110
firearms, starting with the pre
-Patterson prototypes.

63
00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:26,670
And then from there, we roll into some
of the early Patterson revolvers.

64
00:05:27,070 --> 00:05:33,830
So this is an improved Patterson factory
revolver made in 1837, so long ago. But

65
00:05:33,830 --> 00:05:36,270
here they are.

66
00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:38,910
Later on, famously...

67
00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,540
was working on different designs for
revolvers and got hooked up with the

68
00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:47,640
Rangers. These are cool. These are the
Walker Texas Ranger Dragoons.

69
00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:53,400
Colt's first, you know, success after
the factory closed in Patterson.

70
00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,020
So this was the rebirth of the company
after the first failure.

71
00:05:58,220 --> 00:06:02,360
And then that was really where the
company took off, and he was able to

72
00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,080
that first set of firearms for them.
They were designed by Colt and sold

73
00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,720
the Hartford factory was created.

74
00:06:09,470 --> 00:06:15,350
When he built the factory in Hartford
later on, that was when the company

75
00:06:15,350 --> 00:06:16,289
got going.

76
00:06:16,290 --> 00:06:19,950
These are all kind of tedious to load.
You're loading a single cartridge at a

77
00:06:19,950 --> 00:06:26,290
time, but at the time they were
incredibly progressive, really.

78
00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:31,290
People forget that first venture was
essentially a failure down in Patterson.

79
00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:42,480
We're about to go into the rifle test
range, and on the other side of the

80
00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,880
test range is my domain, the R andD range.
That's where we do all the prototype

81
00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,860
testing and any changes to existing
models.

82
00:06:59,630 --> 00:07:04,430
This blue piece of equipment here is
actually an environmental chamber. We

83
00:07:04,430 --> 00:07:09,110
put farms in there and bring them down
to as low as 40, below zero, and as high

84
00:07:09,110 --> 00:07:10,310
as 150 degrees.

85
00:07:10,650 --> 00:07:14,870
And we'll do that for certain tests that
the military wants because they want to

86
00:07:14,870 --> 00:07:17,490
know how the guns function in those
extreme temperatures.

87
00:07:22,110 --> 00:07:26,550
You'll see on that computer screen an
orange or white grid. That's a test

88
00:07:26,550 --> 00:07:30,190
target. Those targets are 100 yards at
the end of a two.

89
00:07:30,570 --> 00:07:36,230
Each rifle has certain maximum group
size that they have to stay under in

90
00:07:36,230 --> 00:07:37,230
to pass.

91
00:07:39,810 --> 00:07:42,350
And you can see again, he has a nice
group.

92
00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:45,970
Puts a safety flag in, he'll take the
gun out of the rack, and he'll go to the

93
00:07:45,970 --> 00:07:46,970
next one.

94
00:07:49,430 --> 00:07:50,430
All right.

95
00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:55,130
This is my room, so to speak, where I do
my work.

96
00:07:55,610 --> 00:07:59,310
I've been full -time at Colt for nine
years. I've been shooting for Colt as a

97
00:07:59,310 --> 00:08:03,230
pro shooter for 16 years. So that's one
of the reasons they brought me in is I

98
00:08:03,230 --> 00:08:08,210
know the gun's inside out. I can
articulate to engineering what's wrong

99
00:08:08,210 --> 00:08:14,830
gun to make the product better. I got a
Colt Commander, which is our

100
00:08:14,830 --> 00:08:15,830
combat elite.

101
00:08:22,620 --> 00:08:26,140
Last year down here, I probably shot 100
,000 rounds through various guns.

102
00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:51,440
A lot of times, we'll just pick it up a
little bit.

103
00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:58,240
Because we want to see how it functions
through how people run it. Because we

104
00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,720
want the human factor in, does the gun.
If I lock this into a rest, it's not the

105
00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,140
same as somebody shooting it because
everybody has a little bit to give in

106
00:09:06,140 --> 00:09:07,019
they're shooting.

107
00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:09,700
We'll even take them and shoot them just
one -handed.

108
00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,440
Now, if this gun stopped, we would stop
what we were doing, take pictures,

109
00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,780
document it, talk to engineering, see
what they wanted to do to correct it.

110
00:09:22,780 --> 00:09:26,380
the most important thing is we'd just...
Do one change at a time so we can

111
00:09:26,380 --> 00:09:29,840
isolate what was the true fix to that
problem.

112
00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,160
The nice thing is most of the time I
don't have to worry about that. The guns

113
00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,160
run.

114
00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,720
My first competition gun, I finally
retired with 185 ,000 rounds through it.

115
00:09:43,060 --> 00:09:46,360
The only thing I had to change was the
barrel because I shot the barrel out.

116
00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:51,340
Other than that, it's all made in
Connecticut, American made, American

117
00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:52,620
It's the best.

118
00:09:54,890 --> 00:09:59,710
We build guns like they're airplanes at
a quality level that is higher than you

119
00:09:59,710 --> 00:10:02,730
would expect for a commercial firearms
manufacturer.

120
00:10:08,270 --> 00:10:12,530
In praise of the polisher, as you pass
through these hallways, know that you

121
00:10:12,530 --> 00:10:18,350
in the presence of masters at their
trade, the Colt polishers, producing the

122
00:10:18,350 --> 00:10:19,710
finest finishes in the world.

123
00:10:20,810 --> 00:10:23,970
When I first came here, I took that.

124
00:10:24,410 --> 00:10:28,010
and kind of really realized where I was
and how much history was behind

125
00:10:28,010 --> 00:10:30,410
everything that we do on a day -to -day
basis.

126
00:10:30,870 --> 00:10:35,330
We'll get a frame that's all pretty raw
from our machining, polish the side,

127
00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:39,670
give it a nice finish, depending on the
material it's made out of, carbon steel

128
00:10:39,670 --> 00:10:43,370
or stainless steel, just that it's raw
state directly from manufacturing.

129
00:10:44,830 --> 00:10:45,970
Frame's being blended.

130
00:10:47,050 --> 00:10:50,010
What he's doing now is blending the
trigger guard.

131
00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,220
to the frame so there's no sharp edges
on that trigger guard for that nice

132
00:10:55,220 --> 00:11:01,800
finished product he's blending in the
front of the dust cover and the trigger

133
00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:07,640
guard to the frame so that the shape of
the gun flows all as one piece these

134
00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:14,520
guys are some of the best in the world
this is the blue room as you can

135
00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,500
see here i have some single action
frames ready to be processed

136
00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,500
They'll put a tag on it to let me know
what they want done to it. So this right

137
00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:28,880
here has got to go into the blue tank
and be turned black.

138
00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,100
If they're big stuff like that, then
I'll put it in that voice and hoist it

139
00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:37,240
all the way across like that.

140
00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,440
I usually just listen to the music.

141
00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:45,680
Oldie.

142
00:11:50,209 --> 00:11:52,810
Back there is Teflon -ing and Nickel
-ing.

143
00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:54,550
That's the other thing I do.

144
00:11:56,370 --> 00:11:58,590
Strut. These are magazine catches.

145
00:11:58,930 --> 00:12:00,090
It's to harden them.

146
00:12:01,790 --> 00:12:04,250
Then we have just plain old wash and
oil.

147
00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:06,530
So I'll just wash them and just oil
them.

148
00:12:08,390 --> 00:12:10,590
If they come out correctly, I'm proud.

149
00:12:11,350 --> 00:12:15,030
I'm proud. And I try to do my best to
make sure they come out correctly.

150
00:12:16,890 --> 00:12:17,890
All right.

151
00:12:18,170 --> 00:12:19,170
Assembly.

152
00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,620
finish through blue, finish through
polishing, one or two steps away from

153
00:12:23,620 --> 00:12:24,620
a final product.

154
00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:31,260
My assemblers here will hand -fit
everything to create a good functioning

155
00:12:31,260 --> 00:12:34,180
that will eventually make its way to the
range and out the door to our customer.

156
00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:38,400
A lot of fine tweaking when it comes
down to hand -fitting a barrel.

157
00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:41,280
Source it down to line up the sight.

158
00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,320
Right now, I mean, your father did it
the same way.

159
00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:46,740
Forty -six years.

160
00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:48,380
Forty -six years, yeah.

161
00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:54,200
Exactly. Al's been here for, I think, 20
years now. Al, almost 20 years, right?

162
00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,280
18.

163
00:12:57,300 --> 00:12:58,620
He's been here for 18 years.

164
00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,240
He took over for his dad's spa.

165
00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:06,300
Pretty cool story of America and how it
gets passed down from generation to

166
00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:07,300
generation.

167
00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:22,080
If you think back to primitive man, they
started inscribing their projectiles

168
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,380
and things of that nature even back
then. So they've been embellishing their

169
00:13:25,380 --> 00:13:28,960
armaments and weapons from the beginning
of time.

170
00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:33,860
They're works of art themselves.

171
00:13:36,660 --> 00:13:39,440
An extension of the human form, if you
will.

172
00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,780
And that's how they were designed. They
had to be held by, you know, a human

173
00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:44,440
being. So they had to be designed well.

174
00:13:46,250 --> 00:13:48,610
And then the beauty of them came with
that.

175
00:13:52,830 --> 00:13:57,450
They were treasured pieces, even to own
a weapon that was embellished where they

176
00:13:57,450 --> 00:13:58,450
were treasured.

177
00:13:59,110 --> 00:14:03,290
I'm sure every craftsman and designer
and engineer that were doing those,

178
00:14:03,350 --> 00:14:08,630
building those guns and ideas and things
felt that same way, to make them not

179
00:14:08,630 --> 00:14:09,930
only functional but beautiful.

180
00:14:11,370 --> 00:14:14,950
My favorite step is probably just laying
out all the parts and pieces and...

181
00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,580
trying to plan out what the final
product will be when it's all done.

182
00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,480
So laying out all the parts, picking
what we're going to do, and how they're

183
00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,440
going to work together to make something
that works well together as a finished

184
00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:25,440
product.

185
00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:30,100
So I guess most people would picture a
gunsmith as a 50 - or 60 -year -old man

186
00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:35,360
with wire glasses in a dark, dimly lit
shop, but that's certainly not the case

187
00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:40,820
for everyone. There are plenty of talent
out there proving themselves, proving

188
00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:42,240
what they can do, trying new things.

189
00:14:43,510 --> 00:14:44,910
I've been at Colt for eight years.

190
00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:47,810
I've been involved with gunsmithing for
14.

191
00:14:49,930 --> 00:14:53,430
I started out by going to gunsmithing
school, so I spent a year and a half in

192
00:14:53,430 --> 00:14:58,490
Pennsylvania learning machining, stock
making, heat treating, finishing, a

193
00:14:58,490 --> 00:14:59,490
little bit of everything.

194
00:15:00,210 --> 00:15:03,310
So this is a spec gun. Spec guns give us
a little bit more freedom.

195
00:15:03,930 --> 00:15:07,970
We can take an idea or something we have
and just kind of go with it or build it

196
00:15:07,970 --> 00:15:09,950
the way we'd like and see where it takes
us.

197
00:15:10,350 --> 00:15:12,650
It's going to be a custom commanding
officer.

198
00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,140
So it has a commander -length slide on
an officer's model frame.

199
00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:20,500
So ending up with one gun that the
features and parts work together to

200
00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,640
something that works well, looks good,
and functions well is different than

201
00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,500
making something that necessarily just
looks good.

202
00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:30,460
Quality guns always have a feel to them.
You can tell how much care was given to

203
00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:33,180
fitting, assembling, building that gun.

204
00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:39,660
When you think about firearms and you
say Colt, anybody around the world knows

205
00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:40,660
Colt firearm.

206
00:15:41,130 --> 00:15:45,290
This is a double -action revolver. So
what we want to test is the trigger

207
00:15:45,290 --> 00:15:46,290
functions two ways.

208
00:15:46,510 --> 00:15:50,510
I can pull this trigger back, and you
see how the cocked hammer rotates the

209
00:15:50,510 --> 00:15:52,270
cylinder and fires. That's double
-action.

210
00:15:52,590 --> 00:15:55,170
Single -action is where you can manually
cock the hammer.

211
00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,980
So when we test the guns, we do a
variation of both single action and

212
00:16:00,980 --> 00:16:03,500
action to make sure it's worth in both
ways.

213
00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:10,760
Actually, Sam Colt invented the revolver
design when he was working on a ship in

214
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,360
the shipping. Back in the old days, they
had that turn circle to bring the

215
00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,360
anchor up.

216
00:16:17,740 --> 00:16:22,220
As he was looking at this wheel of the
ship, he realized this concept of having

217
00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:25,480
a cylinder and then aligning the
cylinder with the barrel.

218
00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,820
Prior to that point, you had single
-shot firearms. It was, you know, you're

219
00:16:30,820 --> 00:16:35,840
sticking a musket ball and a powder
charge down a barrel and you're loading

220
00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,760
chamber, which is integral to the
barrel. But divorcing those two and

221
00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:47,720
revolving cylinder that now has six
chambers or five chambers at the time,

222
00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:48,720
changed the world.

223
00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:50,540
That was the moment.

224
00:16:53,390 --> 00:16:58,190
He took really this European style of
manufacturing that was new to the United

225
00:16:58,190 --> 00:17:00,210
States and applied it to firearms.

226
00:17:00,730 --> 00:17:05,770
The modern assembly line, as we think of
it and know of it now, came from Samuel

227
00:17:05,770 --> 00:17:06,770
Cole.

228
00:17:06,930 --> 00:17:12,210
Most famously, Ford came and looked at
the Colt assembly lines and then later

229
00:17:12,210 --> 00:17:13,530
applied that to the Model T.

230
00:17:14,910 --> 00:17:20,510
World War I, World War II era, obviously
it was a war machine making all sorts

231
00:17:20,510 --> 00:17:21,869
of different guns for the military.

232
00:17:25,390 --> 00:17:32,250
59, 60, 61, Eugene Stoner designed this
unique gas

233
00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:36,010
system that drives what we now call the
M -16.

234
00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:41,770
And that becomes really the next large
period in Colt's history.

235
00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:49,470
After the range, firearms come to one of
our inspectors to check for function,

236
00:17:49,650 --> 00:17:51,710
cosmetic, and overall feel.

237
00:17:52,270 --> 00:17:55,910
and allow it to either pass or fail to
get to our customers outside.

238
00:17:56,370 --> 00:18:00,050
Once again, another old -school way we
see things around here, we still use

239
00:18:00,050 --> 00:18:03,370
metal stamps to indicate whether or not
it has passed inspections.

240
00:18:06,630 --> 00:18:11,910
Every major conflict that the United
States has been involved with, all the

241
00:18:11,910 --> 00:18:16,470
from the Civil War until the modern day,
has had Colts in them.

242
00:18:17,470 --> 00:18:20,770
Not just as a secondary story, I mean,
in most cases.

243
00:18:21,110 --> 00:18:22,170
They were the main story.

244
00:18:25,490 --> 00:18:30,330
When I was 19 years old, there was no
way I would have ever pictured myself

245
00:18:30,330 --> 00:18:32,390
working for a firearms company.

246
00:18:35,330 --> 00:18:40,150
I was a music geek in high school, and
all I did was really play in bands.

247
00:18:42,470 --> 00:18:45,990
It wasn't until 9 -11 happened...

248
00:18:47,060 --> 00:18:51,500
The whole country sort of collectively
just stopped what they were doing and

249
00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:54,880
kind of got grounded in a different way
and in a different way of living.

250
00:18:57,540 --> 00:19:00,740
My buddy came to me and was like, hey,
you want to get your pistol permit? I

251
00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:01,780
like, absolutely.

252
00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:09,800
But things changed in 2007 when I
happened to see a job listed at

253
00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,980
Colt in the newspaper that I worked at.

254
00:19:12,380 --> 00:19:14,620
I applied for the job. I ended up
getting the job.

255
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:19,100
I was working out in the plant in a tech
capacity, and of course, once you're

256
00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:21,960
here, there's no feeling, there's
nothing you can't do.

257
00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,140
I went from being the guy over in the
plant working on tech stuff to a couple

258
00:19:28,140 --> 00:19:32,720
years later, I'm on the India -Pakistan
border working on a military tender, and

259
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,660
I'm the only American within about 100
miles, probably.

260
00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:44,420
The future of cold is really to
safeguard the legacy that's been left to

261
00:19:45,070 --> 00:19:50,790
You know, that World War I soldier who's
in a trench that he dug by hand over in

262
00:19:50,790 --> 00:19:55,510
Europe and he's holding that 1911 pistol
and he's sleeping with it at night.

263
00:19:55,790 --> 00:19:58,890
You know, he hasn't seen his family for
God knows how long.

264
00:19:59,170 --> 00:20:04,430
You know, that feeling of safety that
was given to him by that firearm, that's

265
00:20:04,430 --> 00:20:05,650
the legacy of Colt.

266
00:20:06,490 --> 00:20:09,010
And I think that's the part that we have
to safeguard.

267
00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:13,930
And we're going to do that the best way
possible, which is...

268
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:20,240
continue to modernize what we do here,
continue to build good products, and do

269
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,240
more of it.