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ATK

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Alliant Techsystems

1990
Arlington, Virginia

  • 1990 Honeywell spun off its defense businesses to shareholders
  • 1995 purchased Hercules Inc
  • 2001 acquisition of Blount International
    – sporting and law enforcement ammunition
  • 2001 operates the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP)
  • 2009 acquired Eagle Industries
  • 2010 acquired Blackhawk Industries
  • 2012 selected by the United States Army to continue operating and maintaining the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) for seven to ten years
  • 2014 renovated ammunition production facility at the LCAAP
    – invested $11 million to modernize production of 20 millimeter ammo
  • 2015  Vista Outdoor spinoff of the Sporting Group companies
    – and ATK’s Aerospace Group – Orbital Sciences
    – headquartered in Utah

STI International

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started in 1990
Georgetown, Texas

  • 1990 Tripp Research, Inc.
    – Virgil Tripp started building custom M1911s for competition
    – designed parts for 1911s
    – his parts were sold and marketed by Chip McCormick
  • 1993 Sandy Strayer joined Tripp Research, Inc.
  • changed name to STI (Strayer-Tripp International)
  • manufactures modular M1911 based in Georgetown, Texas
  • June 1994, Sandy Strayer left STI to start a new company called Strayer Voigt Inc
  • 1997 Dave and Shirley Skinner purchase of STI from Virgil Tripp
    – renamed the company to STI International, Inc
  • 1997 Virgil started Tripp Research, Inc
  • January 2005, Dave Skinner sold the company to the employees of STI
    – first employee-owned company in the firearms industry
  • 2010-2014 Tim Dillon was hired and made President and CEO
  • 2017 private Investor group purchased STI (Westwind Investors)

  • May 26, 2020, STI Firearms changed name to Staccato

STI International
Staccato
114 Halmar Cove
Georgetown, TX 78628

512.819.0656

Ashley Hlebinsky

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1990

  • Historian
    – Masters in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware
  • Author.
  • Consultant.
  • 2018 TV Personality Discovery Channel show “Master of Arms.”
    – show ran for one season
  • assistant to the firearms curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
  • 2011 Midway USA’s Gun Stories
  • 2011 – 2020 Curator Cody Firearms Museum
  • Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar
  • first-ever female curator running a firearms museum in the United States
  • May 2021 testified before the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on The Constitution, in a hearing titled: Stop Gun Violence: Ghost Guns

Ashley Hlebinsky (@historyinheels)

https://centerofthewest.org/2020/07/10/looking-back-moving-forward-a-decade-of-ashley-hlebinsky/

Gun Historian Ashley Hlebinsky Drops Truth Bombs in ‘Ghost Gun’ Hearing

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Claridge Hi-Tech

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1990 – 1993
Northridge, California

  • 1990 Joe and Gail Claridge bought 50% of Goncz Armament, Inc
    – Gail Claridge an interior decorator
    – Joe an ex policeman
  • They rebramnded the guns
  • incorporated Claridge Hi-Tec, Inc. in Northridge, California
  • Changes to the Goncz design include:
    – adding the bolt hold back
    – included after market cheep magazines
    – pipe receiver with silver soldered plug to hold the barrel
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  • five models of the Hi-Tec pistols and three models of the Hi-Tec rifles
  • put out business by Lajos John Goncz

Magtech

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 created in 1990
São Paulo, Brazil
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

  • 1926 Costabile and Gianicola Matarazzo, founded Fábrica Nacional de Cartuchos e Munições
  • 1936  sold their operation to Remington Arms and Imperial Chemical Industries
    – renamed Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos (CBC)
  • 1979 sold & now is privately owned
  • All ammunition made in Brazil
  • three production facilities
    – São Paulo
    – 2x Rio Grande do Sul
  • 2009 CBC purchased Sellier & Bellot
  • produce over 1.5 billion cartridges annually

Semi Automatic Rifle Import Ban (1989)

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  • Wed March 15, 1989 – spring suspension
  • July 7, 1989 – Signed into law
  • Bush Administration
  • banned imports of semiautomatic assault rifles indefinitely
  • announced by William J. Bennett, the director of national drug policy
  • requests from importers to bring in the rifles had nearly tripled those for all of 1988
  • Law enforcement officers have complained they are often outgunned by drug-traffickers and other criminals who carry high-powered weapons that fire many rounds without needing reloading.
  • Doctors and nurses in major cities have reported sharp increases in the numbers of deaths and serious wounds from such weapons
  • firearms dealers attributed the sharp jump in import-permit applications to a fear by the gun-owning public that purchase of the weapons soon would be prohibited
  • Stephen E. Higgins, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, estimated that half the owners of assault rifles are collectors.
  • The permanent ban affected all 43 of the 50 models included in the spring suspension

 

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Imports cited by Bennett

  • 1988 = 113,732
  • 1987 = 40,000
  • 1986 = 4,000

NSCA

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founded in 1989

National Sporting Clays Association is the National Governing Body for NSCA-type sporting clays in the USA. Sporting Clays has been one of the fastest growing shotgun sports in recent years. It simulates field shooting at game birds with many odd shooting angles and is usually held in semi-wooded areas.

NSSA – NSCA
5931 Roft Road
San Antonio, TX 78253

(210) 688-3371 or (800) 877-5338

http://nssa-nsca.org/