In typical Texas fashion, Harris County commissioners fire their .45 Colt pistols instead of using shovels. This was to honor the name of Houston's first major league baseball team, the Colt .45s, who would play in the Astrodome.
Love it...if that happened today, most of the onlookers would either faint or initiate a SWAT call out...In typical Texas fashion, Harris County commissioners fire their .45 Colt pistols instead of using shovels. This was to honor the name of Houston's first major league baseball team, the Colt .45s, who would play in the Astrodome.
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I grew up calling all handguns pistols and did not realized my 'error' until I came here on the internet.
You are not in error. All handguns are pistols. A "revolver" is a specific type of pistol. The definition of a revolver is a "revolving pistol". That's just historic knowledge.I grew up calling all handguns pistols and did not realized my 'error' until I came here on the internet.
Don't feel bad, I do it all the time.I grew up calling all handguns pistols and did not realized my 'error' until I came here on the internet.
Yup from Baltimore to Wash DC......only to be renamed as bullets are a scary thing.....so they renamed the Bullets to Wizards.....then Wizards was a offensive term.......but they kept it......View attachment 63451
From the old professional bball team.
I think the name was inspired by the old shot tower that was and still is a fixture downtown. Back in the late 40's it was a more prominent building before it was eclipsed by high rises. Gotta love the motion lines at the end of the cartridge.
You are not in error.
Same here but I've also slipped into calling them guns from time to time which makes me feel like a media personality.I grew up calling all handguns pistols and did not realized my 'error' until I came here on the internet.
All handguns are pistols.... Dueling pistols, flintlock pistols, cap and ball pistols, etc.Looks like revolvers to me not pistols.....
When I was a kid my friend's dad had "cowboy" guns. Being a kid who loved westerns and having many cap guns I got excited when my friend sad his dad was coming downstairs to watch tv with us (I believe it was a Baltimore Colts game at that) and he was bring down Colt 45s! I was pretty disappointed when he came down with a six pack of Colt 45 in a bucket of ice.
Nobody is in error. A 1911 IS a pistol and a 36 IS a revolver.Depends where you worked or trained......in NAVY/USMC SAMI school a 1911 is a pistol....a M36 is a revolver.......actually a question on the Navy Ordnance rating exams.......
So who's in error? Military or civilian?.......
I remember seeing this on the evening news, it was a huge thing for Texas. I can't recall if Houston was the only MLB team in Texas then. After the astrodome was finished it was open for tours daily, it seemed like everyone in town was driving two hours to take a tour.In typical Texas fashion, Harris County commissioners fire their .45 Colt pistols instead of using shovels. This was to honor the name of Houston's first major league baseball team, the Colt .45s, who would play in the Astrodome.
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Nobody is in error. A 1911 IS a pistol and a 36 IS a revolver