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The 45 caliber Colt 1911 was adopted because the issued 38 caliber revolvers couldn't stop the Moro guerillas the US Army was fighting in the Philippines

The beer Colt 45 was named in honor of Baltimore Colts' running back Jerry Hill (who wore #45) and NOT the handgun.

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1. Elvis was so famous the Secret Service let him bring a Colt .45 into the White House to give to President Nixon.

2. In August 1920 serial killer Carl Panzram burglarized the home of former president William H. Taft stealing bonds, and his Colt .45. He used the money to buy a yacht; where he lured men, killing them with Tafts gun. All as a response to Taft approving his sentencing while Secretary of War.

3. Danny Simpson, he robbed $6,000 from a bank in Ottawa. He used his father’s gun, which was a rare 1918 .45-caliber Colt semi-automatic valued at over $100,000. The gun went to a Canadian museum and Simpson went to jail.

4. While malt beverages like King Cobra, Bud Ice, Steel Reserve and Colt 45 account for only 2.4 percent of the U.S. Beer market they make up 46 percent of beer consumed by ER patients

5. Colt 45 Malt Liquors former slogan was "It works every time"

6. Colt 45 malt liquor was named after running back #45 Jerry Hill of the 1963 Baltimore Colts and not the pistol or the revolver.

7. In the movie Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood fired .45 Long Colt rounds instead of using .44 Magnum. This was because blanks did not exist for the .44 Magnum in 1971.

8. The legendary handgun in the anime “Trigun” is a realistic and manufacturable gun- fit for .45 long Colt ammunition, a “6 o’clock” barrel, and “breaktop” loading mechanism.

9. John Colt, brother of Samuel Colt (inventor of Colt 45), committed suicide... by knife

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Although Colt .45 caliber pistol were thought to have been used by US troops as effective "man stoppers" against Moro "berserker" warriors at the 1913 Battle of Bud Bagsak, the shipment of them had not yet arrived and the "man stopper" Winchester Model 1897 shotguns were actually used.

Colt 45 (Malt Liquor) invented a mentholated 40oz malt beverage named Cool Colt in the 1990's to target the inner city population. - source

Colt 45 originated in Baltimore, MD and is actually named for longtime Baltimore Colt Running Back, Jerry Hill (who was #45) - source

The makers of Colt 45 were forced by the ATF to discontinue marketing Power Master, a Malt Liquor with 31% more alcohol than Colt 45 because it was marketed towards young black men

During the Spanish-American war, .38 calibre bullets failed to stop attacking Filipinos, so the Colt .45 DA "Philippine" was designed and imported to stop them. - source

All you need is a colt 45 and two zig zags

45 years ago today Jack Kerouac died. His original scroll manuscript of On The Road is OWNED by the Indianapolis Colts owner.

In the 90s, Colt 45 sold a variety of mentholated malt liquor

When Elvis Presley met Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970, he went straight in Nixon's room with a Colt 45 revolver as a gift to Nixon, causing panic at the White House until Nixon get the control of it. Elvis did not get in trouble afterwards.