Recommend you ask a gunsmith for assistance.
'ACP' means Automatic Colt Pistol. A 1911, for example, would chamber a .45 ACP cartridge.
Yes, Colt has and continues to make automatic pistols.
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Automatic Colt Pistol
Automatic Colt Pistol. Colt invented the .45 Auto and thus had the right to name it.
Automatic Colt Pistol
Automatic Colt Pistol
Answer The Colt .45 caliber automatic pistol was accepted as the standard side arm of the US Army and became identified as the Model 1911 Pistol. The bullet developed for use in this new design of automatic pistol was called the .45 ACP or the .45 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge. It stands for "Automatic Colt Pistol" because it was adopted for the Colt 1911 only by the US army.You get many variants the most prolific being the .45 GAP for glock handguns.It's patented I believe.
Automatic Colt Pistol
1897. IMO, worth spending the money to get it lettered by Colt
Colt woodsman 22, about $500.
automatic Colt pistol