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Sandy Froman

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1949

  • Sandra Froman
  • 2005 -2007 • President of the National Rifle Association
  • raised in the San Francisco, California
  • 1971 • Stanford University
  • 1974 • degree from Harvard Law School
  • 1984 – Married to Bruce Nelson
  • 1992 • NRA Board of Directors
    – lifetime appointment on the NRA Executive Council
  • 1998-2003 • 2nd Vice President of the NRA (under Charlton Heston)
  • 2003 – 2005 • NRA 1st Vice President

Clint Smith

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  • – ITC Inter Training Consultants
    – 1st Compant
  • – 1970-1980 Police Officer in Indiana
  • – 1973-1980 in charge of training
  • – 1978 Attended GunSite
    I cant tell you that you WILL be in a LFI next week, but you can’t tell me you WON’T be.
    So, how will you train for the next three days?
  • – 1979 Taught at Gunsite
    – adjunct instructor
    – 1980-1983 with full time instructor with Jeff Cooper
  • 1983 started  International Training Consultants
    – 1983-1993 Traveled Training (DEA,etc)
  • 1984 Started Urban Rifle Course
  • 1986 Started Training for H&K
  • 1993 – 2004 Thunder Ranch, Curvul TX
    – After failed attempt to buy GunSite
  • 2004 moved to Oregon
    “Repitition is the mother of Skill”
    http://mfceoyeager.libsyn.com/website/39-clint-smith-of-thunder-ranch

IHEA – USA

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International Hunter Education Association (IHEA) – USA

since 1949
Denver, Colorado

  • Professional hunter education association
    – affiliated with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
    – 50 state fish and hunter education programs
  • 55,000 volunteer instructors
  •  train and certify more than 650,000 students annually

International Hunter Education Association – USA
800 East 73rd Avenue, Unit 3
Denver, Colorado 80229

303 430-7233

ihea-usa.org

Hornady

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started in 1949

“Accurate, deadly, dependable”

 

  • World War II Joyce Hornady trained marksmanship to the security force at the Grand Island Arsenal
  • Hornady acquired the first of many Waterbury Farrell assembly presses,
  • 1949 a two-man operation
  • Hornady Sporting Goods Company
  • 1958 built the 8,000-square-foot plant
  • 1964 Frontier Ammunition surplus military brass with Hornady bullets
  • 1960 new manufacturing space 25,000 square feet
  • 1970 Steve Hornady, Joyce’s youngest son, joined the company
  • 1971 acquired Pacific reloading Tool Company
    – thry invented the “C” type reloading press in 1928
  • January 1981 Joyce Hornady and his companions died ina plane crash en route to SHOT Show
  • Steve Hornady became president

 

Hornady Manufacturing
3625 West Old Potash Hwy
Grand Island, NE 68803

800-338-3220

hornady.com

Sturm, Ruger & Co

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founded in 1949
Connecticut, Arizona, North Carolina

Ruger is currently America’s largest firearm manufacturer

 second largest handgun manufacturer after Smith & Wesson

second largest rifle manufacturer after Remington

 

  • 1949 founded by Alexander McCormick Sturm and William B. Ruger in Southport, Connecticut
  • Rugers first pistol, serial Number 8, was “hand delivered” to Warren Page
  • Oct. 6, 1949 first shipment of pistols
  • 1,138 pistols produced and shipped by end of 1949
  • November 1951 Alexander Sturm (28) died unexpectedly
    – Bill switched the company eagle logo from red to black from then on
  • 1953 first single action revolver
  • 1960s rifles were added
  • 1969 publicly traded
  • 1980s Opened the Prescott, Arizona factory to manufacture semi-auto pistols
  • 2000 Bill Ruger retired
  • Bill Ruger passed
  • 2006 Bill Ruger, Jr. retired
  • 2008  LCP semi-automatic pistol
  • 2013 Factory in Mayodan, North Carolina
    – 24-year old vacant yarn plant
    – built in 1989 and has over 194,000 sq. feet
  • 2018 Bill Ruger, Jr., passed
  • 700 variations of more than 40 product lines
  • the only American firearms company that is not as a part of a parent company

Arms Makers for Responsible Citizens

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc
411 Sunapee Street
Newport, NH 03773

Telephone: 336-949-5200

Massad Ayoob

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July 20, 1948 

  • 3rd Generation Armed Citizen
  • 1971 – Began Police Work
  • 1972 – Began Instruction
  • 1980 – In the Gravest Extreme published
  • 1981 – Founded Lethal Force Institute 
  • 1982 – 2009 – Lethal Force Institute
  • 1982 – Hit the white part published
  • 1983 – The Truth About Self Protection published
  • 1984 – Stressfire published
  • 1986 – Gun-Proof Your Children / Massad Ayoob’s Handgun Primer published
  • 1986 – Fundamentals of Modern Police Impact Weapons published
  • 1987 – The semiautomatic pistol in police service and self-defense published
  • 1992 – Stressfire II published
  • 1998 Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award
  • 2004 – Ayoob Files published
  • 2004 – The gun digest book of Sig-Sauer published
  • 2007 – The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery published
  • 2008 – The gun digest book of concealed carry published
  • 2008 The Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network
  • 2009 – Massad Ayoob Group
  • 2010 – Greatest handguns of the world published
  • 2011 – COMBAT SHOOTING with Massad Ayoob published
  • 2014 – Deadly Force – Understanding Your Right to Self Defense published

Massad Ayoob‘s school
https://MassadAyoobGroup.com

Massad Ayoob on Guns – Backwoods Home Magazine


https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/

Massad Ayoob, Author at Gun Digest

https://gundigest.com/author/massad-ayoob