Television started to appear in the late 1940s and was pretty widespread by the early 1950s. The single-action sixgun may have been dead and buried in 1941, but it wasn’t going away. In fact, with the coming of the modern double-action revolver and the 1911 semi-auto pistol - both of which came before World War I - the Colt SAA was, in reality, dead long before the funeral was held on the eve of World War II.įortunately, history does not always ride a straight freeway but rather has a habit of taking strange twists and turns. Colt had stopped manufacturing the Model P in 1941 with no thought of ever producing it again. In the early 1950s, the Colt Single Action Army had a great history behind it (emphasis on behind).