Curator’s Corner: Rare Snubnose Colt Fitz Special

On this edition of Curator’s Corner, Senior Curator Phil Schreier joins John Popp to examine a rare Snubnose Colt Fitz Special. John Henry Fitzgerald, Colt’s best salesman as well as one of their most colorful characters from 1910 to 1941 was a former police officer, shooting instructor, and designer of this gun. As former law enforcement, he liked the round butt styling of the Detective Special, but he liked the big frame on the new service models. So what did he do? Learn the full story here! When you