founded in 1981
Wixom, Michigan

“Tritium” the key element in the company’s innovative illumination technology, and “icon”
Additionally, the “iji” in Trijicon mimics the “three-dot” design

 

•  founded in 1981 by Glyn Bindon as Armson USA
  – 1972 aeronautical engineer at Ford Motor Company
  – worked on the U.S. Navy’s F-8U Crusader
• 1981 visited South Africa, met a guy who made gun sights
•  Imported the Armson OEG
  – occluded-type gunsight, used tritium and fiber optics
  – manufactured in South Africa
  – popular for rifles and shotguns
• 1985 reorganized as Trijicon
• 1985 began manufacture of night sights
• 1987 4×32 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG)
• 1988 Trijicon Night Sights were adopted by the FBI
• 1996 1×24 Reflex Sight
  – adopted by the U.S. Special Forces
  – for the SOPMOD M4 Carbine kit
• 1998 AccuPoint 3-9×40 dual-illuminated riflescope
• 2002 TriPower, first triple-illuminated reticle
• September 2003, Glyn Bindon died in a plane crash in Alaska
• 2007 launched Trijicon Red Dot
• 2009 500,000^th 4×32 ACOG scope produced
• 2017 produced the 1,000,000^th ACOG\