Only a relative handful of rank, old cowboy types still clung to the thumb-buster, and most of them couldn’t scrape together enough cash to buy a new gun. Besides, the tooling to build single-action revolvers was worn out and obsolete. It made absolutely no business sense whatsoever to continue to make single-action revolvers. Then came the 1950s and this newfangled entertainment contraption called television. “Hopalong Cassidy” and “The Lone Ranger” were leaders of the genre starting in 1949. A gaggle of short, relatively low-budget western films were also produced. In 1951 one Leonard Franklin Slye, a.k.a. Roy Rogers, started a 30-minute weekly show that often melded the Old West with somewhat modern technology-automobiles, telephones, electric lights and such. Virtually all of these shows featured some gun play in them, and all-more or less-of the handguns were single-action revolvers.