#COLT SAA GUNSMITHS SERIAL#
Serial ranges: General range is SA1 to about SA30000. When last in business, ASM was a subsidiary of American Western Arms, but insurmountable operational problems put a cease to manufacturing in 2004. Over the years Armi San Marco acquired a nagging reputation for soft mechanical parts and other defects however. Armi San Marco’s revolvers were of Colt dimensions, and its best ones were all steel with premium finishes. In terms of authenticity, Armi San Marco’s clone was noted as a great improvement over Uberti and Jager single actions. They supplied American retailers with replica firearms over the 1960’s thru 1990’s.Īrmi San Marco first started making a Colt 1873 replica in the middle 1980’s. Cabela’s – company overviewĪrmi San Marco was a family owned gun maker in Brescia, Italy. This entry was posted in American Western Arms on Jby W.E. They imported Pietta build replica revolvers for a few years. The AWA trademark was revived soon after by another LLC in Florida. The lawsuit, operational problems at Armi San Marco, and a botched rollout of a Lightning rifle replica put AWA out of business in 2004. Colt litigated a ‘trade-dress’ complaint against AWA, noting the Peacekeeper’s name and black grips were essentially free-riding on name and visual characteristics protected by Colt owned trademarks. Good as they often were, this enterprise was beset by continual legal and manufacturing difficulties. The hope was this replica would be obvious as best in class, and thus capture most of the cowboy action market for clone revolvers.ĪWA called this revolver the ‘Peacekeeper’. In the late 1990’s it contracted to import a premium grade 1873 replica from Armi San Marco.
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