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John Henry Fitzgerald, an employee of Colt Firearms from 1918 to 1944, first came up the Fitz Special snubnosed revolver concept around the mid 1920s, when he modified a.38 Special Colt Police Positive Special revolver, by shortening the barrel to two inches, shortening the ejector rod, bobbing the hammer spur, rounding the butt, and removing the front half of the trigger guard. The Colt Detective Special is a six-shot, carbon steel framed, 2' barreled, double-action revolver, and the first example of a class of firearms known as 'snubnose revolvers'.Made by Colt's Manufacturing Company, this model revolver, as the name 'Detective Special' suggests, was intended to be a concealed weapon used by plainclothes police detectives.

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Douglas G. Sheldon Colt's Super .38 - The Production History from 1929 through 1971Willernie, MN 55090