As a company, Colt Firearms has always been an innovator, a pioneer, implementing mass production techniques, designing for parts interchangeability, always striving to improve production methods. Today, Colt's Manufacturing Co. LLC operates just a few miles away from Samuel Colt's original Hartford, Connecticut armory and continues to maintain its position as one of the world's leading gun manufacturers by blending state-of-the-art technologies and modernized manufacturing methods. (less)