Jim Taylor
For those that are not aware of it ...
Saturday, November 05, 2022, 13:48

the 1847 Colt Walker is the Official Handgun of Texas.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a resolution forwarded to his desk by the Texas lawmakers that makes the original 1847 Colt Walker the official handgun of the Lone Star State.

The measure, HCR 15, was filed last December by state Rep. Ben Leman, R-Andersonville, and unanimously passed the House Committee on Culture, Recreation & Tourism before sailing through the legislature as a whole. Abbott signed it Saturday, promising that, "I'll be signing more gun laws real soon."

A hulking 4.5-pound 44-caliber revolver, the Walker was so-named after famed Texas Ranger Capt. Samuel Walker, and only about 1,100 of the handguns were manufactured by Eli Whitney for Colt. Some 1,000 were sent to Texas and 100 made for the commercial market. The gun was a collaboration between Walker and Colt, based on the latter's earlier .36-caliber Paterson design, a five-shot revolver that weighed only half of what the Model 1847 would.

HCR 15 found that:

The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was historically crucial to the early survival of the great State of Texas.

The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was an essential tool in the defeat of the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War to reclaim Texas, the 28th state of the Union.

The co-inventor of the original 1847 Colt Walker pistol, Samuel Walker, was a captain in the Texas Rangers, the first state police agency in the country.

The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol was America's first pistol to hold six rounds, otherwise known as a "six-shooter."

The original 1847 Colt Walker pistol is still the most powerful black powder pistol in existence.

There is more info in this article if you're interested.

https://huntinglife.com/the-1847-colt-walker-the-official-handgun-of-texas/