Started March 1919
New Haven, Connecticut
O.F. Mossberg & Sons the oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in USA
- 1866 Oscar Frederick Mossberg born in Sweden
1866–1937 - 1886 emigrated to the United States
- worked at the Iver Johnson Arms
- managed C.S. Shattuck Arms Co
- worked for J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co
– he designed a small four-shot novelty pistol - 1907 – 1909 made 500 four-shot pistols in old barn behind his house
- 1914 worked for Marlin
moved to New Haven, Connecticut - 1919 Marlin went out of business
- March 1919 at 53-years-old O.F. Mossberg
his two sons, Iver and Harold
started O.F. Mossberg & Sons in New Haven, Connecticut - 1920 -1932 4-shot .22-caliber pocket pistol the Brownie
- 1921 the company purchased a new building
- 1922 first .22 rimfire rifles
- 1922 pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. Savage
(son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp) - 1937 built a third factory
- 1937 O.F. Mossberg passed the business continued under his son Harold
- made parts for Browning M2 during World War II
- 1960 new facility in North Haven
- firearms production moved to Eagle Pass, Texas
O.F. Mossberg & Sons
