1927
- Mailing of Firearms Act
“National Firearms Control Act” - 18 U.S.C.A. § 1715
- prohibiting the use of the U.S.Postal Service to ship concealable firearms
- banned the shipping of concealable handguns through the mail
Author Archives: gwebs
Robert E. Peterson
September 10, 1926 – March 23, 2007 (80)
California
- Robert E. Peterson Publisher
- Jan 1948 Hot Rod magazine started
- Motor Trend
- 1958 – Guns & Ammo Magazine
– added a “Keep & Bear Arms” section - Ken Elliot
- 1970s Petersen Motorama Cars of the Stars on Hollywood Boulevard
- June 1994 Petersen Automotive Museum opened
- 1996 sold his company for $450 million
- 2000 the museum separated from the Natural History Museum
– independent entity owned by the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation - Oct 8, 2010 donated 400 gun collection to the NRA National Firearms Museum
– Display opened in October
SAAMI
Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute
founded in 1926
an association of the nation’s leading manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and components. Founded at the request of the federal government and tasked with:
- Creating and publishing industry standards for safety, interchangeability, reliability and quality
- Coordinating technical data
- Promoting safe and responsible firearms use
John David Dingell Jr.
(born July 8, 1926)
– 1955 – 2015 United States House of Representatives
– 1968 Urged the NRA to fight for 2nd Amendment rights & the concept of the NRA ILA
– former board member of the National Rifle Association
– For many years, Dingell received an A+ rating from the NRA
- Born in Colorado
- Served in Congress for Michigan
- longest-ever serving member of Congress
High Standard
1926 – 2018
- 1926 founded in Hamden, Connecticut
- 1932 purchased by Carl Gustav Swebilius
- During World War II supplied .22 pistols for pistol training
- D developed a silent, flashless pistol for use by OSS agents behind enemy lines
- 1962 – 1984 High Standard D-100
hammerless, double-action derringers - 1968 acquired by the Leisure Group
- 1976 relocated to East Hartford, Connecticut
- February 1977 stopped production of long guns
- 1978 Clem Confessore led management buyout from Leisure Group
- December 1984, its assets were auctioned to Gordon Elliott
- 1990 American Derringer obtained the rights to High Standard Derringer design
- 1993 High Standard of Houston, Texas acquired the company assets and trademark Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
- March 1994 first Houston manufactured pistols
- 2000s acquired Interarms
- 2001 Acquired Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
- 2018 went out of business
High Standard Manufacturing Company
Bill Woodin
December 16, 1925 – March 18, 2018
- William Woodin III
- His grandfather (also named William Woodin) was President Franklin Roosevelt’s first treasury secretary
- Bill’s Step-Father was a founder of the American Quarter Horse Association
- bachelor in zoology at the University of Arizona
- master in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
- 1950 kingsnake species named after him: lampropeltis pyromelana woodini
- volunteer for the Desert Museum before it opened
- 1954 to 1971 – Executive Director Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
- called “the most promising young naturalist in the United States” by Roy Chapman Andrews, a former American Museum of Natural History director
- 1955 – co-founder International Ammunition Association
- active in European Cartridge Research Association
- compiled “one of the great collections of ammunition in the world,”
- 1973 Woodin Laboratory built
3,000-square-foot underground vault - 1975 – Consulted on the Kennedy assassination research
- 160,000 cartridges tracing the evolution of small arms ammunition
- 1998 co-authored three volumes A History of Modern U.S. Small Arms Ammunition
- Technical Advisor to and Distinguished Life Member of AFTE
(Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners) - Consultant to the U. S. Army Armament Research and Development Command (Armament Concepts Office)
Stoeger
established in 1923
New York, New Jersey, Maryland
- 1923 Alexander F. Stoeger
– issued a price list from his New York City shop
– sole authorized importer of Mauser and Luger Guns & Ammo - producer and importer of firearms
- biggest firearms retailer in New York City
- located in South Hackensack, New Jersey
- Stoeger Publishing Company
– Stoeger Publishing Co is the author of Shooter’s Bible - 1990s, the Stoeger company was purchased by Finnish rifle manufacturer Sako
- 1994 American-made version of the Luger
- 2000 Sako was acquired by Beretta Holding Group
– placed under Benelli USA
– moved to Accokeek, Maryland
Stoeger Industries
901 Eighth Street
Pocomoke, MD 21851
(301) 283-6981
stoegerindustries.com
Federal Premium Ammunition
April 27, 1922
in Anoka, Minnesota
- April 27, 1922 Charles L. Horn founded Federal Cartridge Corporation in Anoka, Minnesota
– four factories
– 700,000 square feet - 1941 Federal won an $87-million contract from the U.S. government
– to build and operate the $30-million Twin City Ordnance Plant (TCOP) - 1977 William B. Horn introduced Federal’s Premium line of centerfire rifle and shotshell ammunition
- 1987 – 2020 worked with a local non-profit group to employ people with disabilities
- Premium line with projectiles from Nosler Partition and Sierra boat-tail
- 2014 built modern water-treatment plant
- February 2015 owned by Vista Outdoor
- 2019 started selling directly to consumers through online store
- customers can order hand-loaded ammunition customized for their needs
Sako
Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Osakeyhtiö
(Firearms and Machine workshop of the Civil Guard)
Established in 1921
- to build and service firearms for the Civil Guard in Finland
- 1921 Separate company established in Helsinki
- 1929 Manufacturing of ammunition begins
- 1932 Manufacturing of rifle barrels begins
- 1938 Manufacturing of rifle stocks begins
- 1939-1944 275 mil. machine gun rounds
- 1945 new owner Finnish Red Cross
- 1962 New owner: Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy
- 1967 New owner: Oy Nokia Ab
- 1993 rifle production is concentrated in Riihimäki
– Tourula manufactures ammunition - 1994 acquires a majority stake in Stoeger Inc
– operates in the USA and Canada - 1995 entire ammunition production line was sold
– to Vammas Oy - 2000 New owner: Beretta
- 2006 85 anniversary
Sako
P.O. BOX 149
FI-11101 RIIHIMÄKI
FINLAND
(+358) 10 830 5200
Jeff Cooper
May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006
- Created the Safety Rules
- Created the Shooting School
- 1941 Marines
- 1957 Shooting Compititons in California
- Southwest Combat Pistol League (Southwest Pistol League)
Bigbear, California - 1966 coined the term Hoplophobia
- 1975 Became International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
- first IPSC President
- 1977 American Handgunner Magazine
- 1989 Principles of Personal Defense (Revised Edition, red cover)
- 2006 Principles of Personal Defense (blue cover)
– Foreword by Louis Awerbuck
Hoplophobia, the morbid fear of guns, is a real, extremely dangerous, widespread and clinically recognizable complex specific phobia – Jeff Cooper 1966