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Great Western Arms Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryFirearms
Founded1954
Defunct1964
FateDissolved
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
United States
ProductsCopy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver

The Great Western Arms Company (GWA) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1953 to produce an American-made copy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Colt had discontinued this model in 1940. The Great Western revolver was sold by mail order in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was used in many Western movies and television shows.[1]

  1. ^ Sweeney, Patrick (2007). Gun Digest Book of Ruger Pistols and Revolvers. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-89689-472-3. Retrieved 21 May 2013.

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