Beretta USA

Since 1526
1977 Beretta USA was established

  • a tradition that has carried over, uninterrupted, through fifteen generations of Berettas
  • they bought FI Industries, inc
  • 1977 Beretta USA was established
    – Accokeek, Maryland
    – 115,000 square feet
  • Jan 1980 made small caliber pistols
  • May 2002 contract for US Air Force
    – 18,744 pistols (92 series)
  • September 2007  contract to  US Army and the US Air Force
    – 10,576 pistols (series 92)
  •  January, 2009 largest US military handgun contract since World War II
    – supply 450,000 model 92FS pistols
  • September 2012  US Army contract
    – 100,000 92FS pistols
  • 2017 New facility in Gallatin, Tennessee
    – 160,000 square feet
    – 100 acre

Beretta USA Corp.
Service Department
17601 Beretta Drive
Accokeek, Maryland 20607

AMT

Arcadia Machine & Tool

1977 – 1998

  • from Irwindale, California
  • 1978 AMT Backup 380
  • 1982 to 1995 produced the AutoMag line of pistols
  • 1989 acquired by IAI (Irwindale Arms Incorporated)
  • 1998 purchased by Galena Industries of Sturgis, South Dakota
    –  assembled guns from existing parts
    – phased out the use of the “AMT” brand
  • 2001 – 2018 purchased by High Standard Manufacturing Company in Houston, Texas
  • 2005 – 2018 reintroduced & produced:
    – AutoMag II, AutoMag III, AutoMag IV, and Backup 
  • May of 2018 High Standard Manufacturing went out business

 

AMT Information site

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Shiloh Rifle

began in 1976
New York, Montana

  • 1848-1881 32-year run of original Sharps rifle production
  • March 12, 1874 Sharps died (64)

Modern Sharps

  • 1976 started as Shiloh Products, Inc
    – in Farmingdale, New York
    – founded by Len Mulé & Wolfgang Droege
  • Len Mulé
    –  manufactured high quality bullet moulds for blackpowder shooters
    –  four-cavity design
    –  sold as the “Shiloh IV” moulds
  • 1975 the premiered New Model 1863 Rifle & New Model 1863 Carbine
    – worked with Pinetree Casting (a division of Ruger)
    – used original Civil War salvage parts from Dixie Gun Works
  • 1976 percussion rifles and carbines produced at Farmingdale, New York plant
  • 1976 Len Mulé began researching and working on the blueprints of the cartridge models Shiloh Model 1874
  • 1977 Model 1874 metallic cartridge rifle models went into production
  • 1983 Shiloh Sharps Rifle Company
    – moved to Big Timber, Montana
    –  Merged with C. Sharps Arms
    –  180/acre shooting range
  • 1986 Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company split from C. Sharps Arms
  • 1990 Quigley Down Under – Shiloh manufactured the Sharps rifle
  • 1991 purchased by the Bryant brothers
  • 1996 started in house Foundry

Shiloh Rifle
201 Centennial Dr
Big Timber, Montana 59011

shilohrifle.com

Knight’s Armament Company

Founded in 1974

  • sole proprietorship,owned by C. Reed Knight
  • producing rifles (including the M110), suppressors, weapon accessories, and night vision scopes
  • KAC facility is located on the site of a former Tomahawk missile factory
  • SR-25 semi-automatic sniper rifle
  • Institute of Military Technology (IMT)

Knight’s Armament Company
701 Columbia Blvd
Titusville, FL 32780

.knightarmco.com

Springfield Armory

 

named for the original Springfield Armory in Massachusetts
the original armory closed in 1968

  • Elmer C. Ballance  renamed LH Manufacturing in Texas to Springfield Armory
  • 1974 Bob Reese bought the company
  • M1 Garand
  • 1911-A1,
  • M1A, which is the civilian model of the M-14 rifle
  • 2001  introduced the XD pistol line
  • 2007 introduced the XD-M
  • 2016 SAINT  AR-15
  • 2017 introduced XD-E
  • 2019 Hellcat

Springfield Armory
420 W Main St
Geneseo IL 61254

800.680.6866

springfield-armory.com

Seecamp

 from 1973 to 2014
Milford, Connecticut

  • Ludwig (Louis) Wilhelm Seecamp (1901-1989)
    – before WWII trained as a master gunsmith in the technical academy in Germany
  • 1959 – 1971  gun designer for O.F. Mossberg.
  • 1973 started as a gunsmithing company doing double-action conversions on 1911
  • 1978 patented specialized spring system for miniaturization of pistols
  • 1981 Seecamp ventured into firearms manufacturing, beginning with the LWS-25 double action only (DAO)
  • 1999 third model, the LWS-380
  • 2014 Whalley Precision took over production

L.W. Seecamp Co.
28 Hudson Drive
Southwick, MA 01077

(413) 569-4650

seecamp.com

Bushmaster

1973

  • 1973 originally the Gwinn Firearms Company in Madison, North Carolina
    sold the Bushmaster bullpup carbine 5.56
    moved to Bangor, Maine
  • Richard Dyke purchased for $241,000
    – moved to Windham, Maine
  • 1992 until 2005 Bushmaster M17S bullpup rifle
  • 2002 “D.C. Sniper” attacks
  • 2006 sold to Cerberus Capital Management
  • 2006 bought Cobb Manufacturing
  • 2007 BA50 bolt action rifle 50bmg
  • 2008 Magpul agreed to manufacture the Masada rifle, as the Bushmaster ACR
  • 2010  ACR entered the market
  • 2011 Remington’s Ilion, NY Facility
  • 2012 added to Freedom Group
  • 2011 Windham Weaponry was created by Richard Dyke
    – in Windham, Maine
  • 2012 Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn attacks
  • 2014 relocated in Huntsville, Alabama
    – 500,000-square-foot facility
    – formerly used by Chrysler
  • 6,400 firearm gun library ???

Bushmaster Firearms
1816 Remington Circle SW
Huntsville, AL 35824

1-800-883-6229

Bauer Automatic

1972–1984
in Fraser, Michigan

  • R.B. Industries (Robert Bauer)
  • imported the Mauser 3000 rifles
  • highest quality, finest hand fitted, semi-automatic,stainless steel pistols
  • 1984 Robert Bauer Sr. died
  • 1984 became Fraser Firearms
  • 1986 Fraser Firearms closed