S&W & Colt.. Naming Rights:

Life gets tedious ain't it ..

- Now read this line again - if you get it in order there's extra points.😁

3rd Model S&W Hand Ejector Model

- You see, way back when - neither great U S maker wanted to give a free ride to the other by stamping their rival's named cartridges on one of their own revolvers .. so it looks like Colts sales team conjured-up their own brand names .. .Proprietary Naming.

Colt Police Positive 
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Moi? - I get around this issue by buying better Glocks and Rugers thus avoiding contact with both of these hardware makers.

Anyway the .32 S&W Long cartridge (1896) is the SAME CARTRIDGE as the .32 Colt New Police except Colts used a flat nosed slug in their version. - You might wonder which came first - but the answer could be that the Union Metallic Cartridge Company was FIRST - as the .32"S&W (Short) cartridge (that was lengthened to make the .32" S&W Long) - was originally made as a black-powder round by UMC 😈.

Not to add to your confusion ... but Merwin Hulbert also claimed and sold the same rounds as .32" Merwin Hulbert Cartridges for their guns.

- A similar naming scuffle push-and-shove went on later about the .38" S&W (1877) and the .38" Colt New Police .. that also got used by Webley & ROF Enfield as the .38/200 Mk1 Service Cartridge. - The 21 year later (1898) .38" Special is different again.

Yeah - it's a minefield eh.

The fact of the matter is that the ".32 long" cartridge was used as a law enforcement service revolver round for some time and gained a reputation for being consistently very accurate in target competition.

Marty K.

Time to act  now.

..  looney-tunes Greens also seem to support act ..

Remember .. if you get it in order there's extra points ..

- Both the Greens & the Govt. think voters are colourful morons ..

.. Time to act now.