founded in 1979
Minnesota, Pennsylvania

• 1979 Magnum Research’s founders, Jim Skildum and John Risdall in Pillager, MN
• January 1983 filed a US patent for a gas-actuated pistol
• 1985 – 1995 pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI)
• 1995 – 1998  manufactured by Saco Defense in Saco, Maine
• 1998 – 2009 manufactured by Israel again
  – 2005 IMI was privatized and renamed Israel Weapon Industries (IWI)
• 2009 manufactured in Pillager, Minnesota
• June 2010 purchased by Kahr Arms
• 2015 moved to Pennsylvania
  –  620-acre
  – 40,000 square foot

Magnum Research
12602 33rd Avenue SW
Pillager, MN 56473