Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

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Now here's your host, Mr. Thrill Ride himself.

Eric Mataxis.

Hey, folks.

Do you like history? Because I don't. Actually, I do.

I've written history books. It's a fact that I'm fascinated by history. And whenever I discover a book

or an author who's written about things in history, I'm all in. We have with us on the program,

Jim Risenberger. He has written a book about someone, you've heard of him, Sam Colt. The book is called Revolver, not to be confused with

the Beatles album, Sam Colt and the sixth shooter that changed America.

Jim Risenberger, welcome to this program.

Thanks.

Great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Congratulations on the book titled Revolver.

I know some of this history and I don't know some of this history.

So I was excited to see that you'd written a book about this

because I think a lot of times we take things for granted. When you think of a six-shooter, that's like a

pencil with an eraser. I don't think about who invented it. What led you to this subject and this man?

Well, as we were talking about before we started chatting by Zoom, is I grew up in Washington, D.C., live in New York City, so I don't come out of a gun culture.

And given the other books I've written, I'm kind of an odd person in a way to write a book about a gun.

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