Category Archives: Firearm Industry

J&G Sales

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started in 1946

  • 1946 founded in Turner, Montana by Joe DeSaye called the J&G Rifle Ranch
  • 1977 moved to Prescott, Arizona
  • 1994 two of Joe’s sons took over the business
  • March 2008 Joe DeSaye, the founder, passed
  • large warehouse in Prescott, Arizona

J&G Sales
440 Miller Valley Rd
Prescott, AZ 86301

928-445-9650

jgsales.com

NSGA

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National Sporting Goods Association

founded in 1927
Downers Grove, Illinois

In 1927, the association’s founders fought an unfair taxation on sporting goods in the state of South Carolina. This fight led to the formation of the Sporting Goods Dealer’s Association of South Carolina.

Soon after, other regional sporting goods associations began to form in the East, Midwest and the South. Finally, these associations merged into one and in 1936, the name was officially changed to National Sporting Goods Association.
 https://www.nsga.org/about/

National Sporting Goods Association 
3041 Woodcreek Drive, Suite 210
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
(847) 296-NSGA (6742) 

 

Warren Page

– 1960 Created the First National Conference on the Shooting Sports
– 1972 Director of National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)

SAAMI

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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

Sports South

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opened in 1841

country’s oldest and largest distributor of firearms, ammunition, and accessories

  • 1841 opened store in Shreveport, Louisiana
  • 1974 Sports South is formally incorporated and remove from Morris & Dickson Co.

Sports South, LLC
101 Robert G. Harris
Shreveport, LA 71115

(800) 772-4287

theshootingwarehouse.com

Benjamin F. Butler

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November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893
Massachusetts

  •  criminal defense lawyer
  • major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • September 27, 1862, Butler formed the first African American regiment in the US Army, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard
  • 1869 – founded the United States Cartridge Company
  • leadership role in the impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson
  • 1882 33rd Governor of Massachusetts
    – January 4, 1883 – January 3, 1884
  • coauthored the Civil Rights Act of 1875