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Eric Kincel

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02/01/1967

  • 2001 Began VLTOR in Idaho
  • 2004 – bought by Abrams Airborne Manufacturing, Inc. (AAMI) in Tucson, AZ
  • 2005 – Invented Modular firearm buttstock
  • 2008 Invented the KeyMod
  • 2011 (2013) Invented Charging handle with improved gas deflection
  • 2013 Director of Research & Development for Bravo Company USA
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Thompson Center Arms

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since 1967
New Hampshire, Massachusetts

  • Warren Center developed an unusual break-action, single-shot pistol
    – in his basement workshop in Rochester, New Hampshire 
  • 1965 Warren Center joined the K.W. Thompson Tool Company
  • 1967 Warren Center’s Contender pistol introduced
  • 1968 name was changed to Thompson/Center Arms Company
  • 1970 introduced Warren Center’s Hawken-styled black powder muzzle-loader rifle
  • 1983 Encore was released
    – uses a different trigger mechanism
    – larger and stronger frame
    – over 86 cartridges
  • 1992 United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co
    – Court ruled in the the rifle conversion kit did not constitute a short-barreled rifle under the National Firearms Act of 1934
  • 1996  major factory fire at the Thompson/Center factory
    – destroyed all tooling and parts for Scout & Patriot pistols & the Seneca rifle
    – they were all discontinued
  • January 4, 2007, Thompson/Center was purchased by Smith & Wesson
  •  December 8, 2010 manufacturing was moved to Springfield, Massachusetts

Thompson Center Arms
2100 Roosevelt Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104

(866) 730-1614

tcarms.com

Wolfe Publishing

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founded in 1966

  • 1966 Handloader Magazine
    – dedicated to reloading
  • 1969 Rifle Magazine
    – dedicated solely to rifles
  • Successful Hunter Magazine

Wolfe Publishing Company
2180 Gulfstream Ste. A
Prescott, AZ 86301

800 899-7810

riflemagazine.com

ISRPA

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The Indiana State Rifle & Pistol Association is the state-level chapter of the National Rifle Association.

  • Chartered in 1966
  •  formed to promote shooting sports, Education, Safety, and the preservation of the Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights of the residents of the State of Indiana

ISRPA is affiliated with:

  • CMP affiliate
  • Midway Foundation
  • Indiana Youth Shooting Sports Foundation
  • United States Concealed Carry Association
  • Gun Owners of America
  • The Well Armed Woman.

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ISRPA
P.O. Box 40025
Indianapolis, IN 46240

SIONICS

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Studies In the Operational Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion

founded in 1966

  • 1966 founded by Mitchell WerBell
  • producing firearm suppressors for the M16 and M14
  • January 1968 first patents
  • 1969 Gordon B. Ingram hired as chief engineer

Sionics
1655 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

  • 1970 They created a manufacturing corporation called Military Armament Corporation, and merged it with Quantum and SIONICS

Pat Spurgin

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first markswoman in history to win Olympic Gold medal

  • Born in Billings, Montana
  • now living in Fairbanks, Alaska
  • competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
  • the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women
    while a student at Murray State University, Kentucky
  • Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her
  • 2014  torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay
  • 2014 appointed as director of the Alaskan Office of Management and Budget