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These pocket-sized guns had some punch as well as multiple shots. Sam Colt did not actually invent the revolver, but in 1836 he did patent the first revolver mechanism that worked when it was supposed to. After that, his Colt company, along with Smith & Wesson and Remington, led the way in producing multishot pistols …
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