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It wouldn’t be fair to say Ruger was built on the single action, but it wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate either. William B. Ruger formed a partnership with Alexander Sturm, an artist and a bit of a polymath who had been an OSS officer and married Teddy Roosevelt’s granddaughter. He provided the funding to support Ruger’s ingenuity. Together, Sturm and Ruger introduced the stunningly successful and aptly named Standard .22 pistol in 1949. Combining elements of the Luger, Nambu and other pistols, it has since evolved into the current Mk IV and remains the standard for general use .22 LR pistols. The Standard was quickly followed by a trio of single action revolvers: the .22 caliber Single Six (1953), the Blackhawk .357 Magnum (1955) and the Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum (1959). All of these were well received by a market acculturated by Western movies and fast draw, but largely deprived of new production sixguns due to Colt’s suspending SAA production after WWII. ....