Colt Defense and Colt Manufacturing are reuniting: The two halves of the gun-making company Samuel Colt established in Hartford in the 1850s are coming back together, with plans that include keeping a combined 750 employees in West Hartford, a company executive said Monday. Colt Defense LLC’s $60.5 million acquisition of Colt Manufacturing Co. will reunite Colt’s military and civilian handgun businesses, a decade …
