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AL JSSP

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American Legion Junior Shooting Sports Program

Started in 1990

A youth rifle safety and procedure program allowing children to participate in an Olympic skill sport while fostering healthy competition.

The American Legion Junior Shooting Sports Program is a gun safety education and marksmanship program that encompasses the basic elements of safety, education, enjoyment and competition. Shooters use the .177 caliber air rifle. Both males and females can participate, through Legion sponsorship; disabled youth are encouraged to join, as competitive shooting is a sport that creates an equal playing field for all competitors.

Air Rifle Competition

The annual 3-Position Junior Air Rifle National Championship is a tournament that begins with postal matches. State and/or regional champions are determined and advance to a qualification round (also a postal match) to determine the athletes who will earn expense-paid trips to compete in the national championship. The national championship is a shoulder-to-shoulder match held each July at the USA Shooting range facilities at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Cooper Firearms of Montana

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founded in 1990
Stevensville, Montana

“Rifles should shoot as well as they look and vice versa”

 

  • 1990 founded  by Dan Cooper and two others in Stevensville, Montana
    – all former employees of Kimber of Oregon
    – over 50 years in combined experience
  • created to build affordable custom-quality accurate rifles
  • 2009 under new ownership

Cooper Firearms
3662 Hwy 93 North
Stevensville, Montana 59870

406-777-0373

cooperfirearms.com

ATK

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Alliant Techsystems

1990
Arlington, Virginia

  • 1990 Honeywell spun off its defense businesses to shareholders
  • 1995 purchased Hercules Inc
  • 2001 acquisition of Blount International
    – sporting and law enforcement ammunition
  • 2001 operates the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP)
  • 2009 acquired Eagle Industries
  • 2010 acquired Blackhawk Industries
  • 2012 selected by the United States Army to continue operating and maintaining the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) for seven to ten years
  • 2014 renovated ammunition production facility at the LCAAP
    – invested $11 million to modernize production of 20 millimeter ammo
  • 2015  Vista Outdoor spinoff of the Sporting Group companies
    – and ATK’s Aerospace Group – Orbital Sciences
    – headquartered in Utah

STI International

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started in 1990
Georgetown, Texas

  • 1990 Tripp Research, Inc.
    – Virgil Tripp started building custom M1911s for competition
    – designed parts for 1911s
    – his parts were sold and marketed by Chip McCormick
  • 1993 Sandy Strayer joined Tripp Research, Inc.
  • changed name to STI (Strayer-Tripp International)
  • manufactures modular M1911 based in Georgetown, Texas
  • June 1994, Sandy Strayer left STI to start a new company called Strayer Voigt Inc
  • 1997 Dave and Shirley Skinner purchase of STI from Virgil Tripp
    – renamed the company to STI International, Inc
  • 1997 Virgil started Tripp Research, Inc
  • January 2005, Dave Skinner sold the company to the employees of STI
    – first employee-owned company in the firearms industry
  • 2010-2014 Tim Dillon was hired and made President and CEO
  • 2017 private Investor group purchased STI (Westwind Investors)

  • May 26, 2020, STI Firearms changed name to Staccato

STI International
Staccato
114 Halmar Cove
Georgetown, TX 78628

512.819.0656

Ashley Hlebinsky

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1990

  • Historian
    – Masters in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware
  • Author.
  • Consultant.
  • 2018 TV Personality Discovery Channel show “Master of Arms.”
    – show ran for one season
  • assistant to the firearms curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
  • 2011 Midway USA’s Gun Stories
  • 2011 – 2020 Curator Cody Firearms Museum
  • Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar
  • first-ever female curator running a firearms museum in the United States
  • May 2021 testified before the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on The Constitution, in a hearing titled: Stop Gun Violence: Ghost Guns

Ashley Hlebinsky (@historyinheels)

https://centerofthewest.org/2020/07/10/looking-back-moving-forward-a-decade-of-ashley-hlebinsky/

Gun Historian Ashley Hlebinsky Drops Truth Bombs in ‘Ghost Gun’ Hearing

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Claridge Hi-Tech

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1990 – 1993
Northridge, California

  • 1990 Joe and Gail Claridge bought 50% of Goncz Armament, Inc
    – Gail Claridge an interior decorator
    – Joe an ex policeman
  • They rebramnded the guns
  • incorporated Claridge Hi-Tec, Inc. in Northridge, California
  • Changes to the Goncz design include:
    – adding the bolt hold back
    – included after market cheep magazines
    – pipe receiver with silver soldered plug to hold the barrel
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  • five models of the Hi-Tec pistols and three models of the Hi-Tec rifles
  • put out business by Lajos John Goncz

Magtech

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 created in 1990
São Paulo, Brazil
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

  • 1926 Costabile and Gianicola Matarazzo, founded Fábrica Nacional de Cartuchos e Munições
  • 1936  sold their operation to Remington Arms and Imperial Chemical Industries
    – renamed Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos (CBC)
  • 1979 sold & now is privately owned
  • All ammunition made in Brazil
  • three production facilities
    – São Paulo
    – 2x Rio Grande do Sul
  • 2009 CBC purchased Sellier & Bellot
  • produce over 1.5 billion cartridges annually