Category Archives: Resources

Swift

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1982
Quinter, Kansas

  • 1982 started out making component bullets
    – in Quinter, Kansas
  • 1984 began production on a new rifle bullet for large game
  • 1994 Bill Hober joined

Swift Bullet Company
One Thousand One Swift Avenue
PO Box 27
Quinter, KS 67752

785-754-3959

swiftbullets.com

Trijicon

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 founded in 1981
Wixom, Michigan

“Tritium” the key element in the company’s innovative illumination technology, and “icon”
Additionally, the “iji” in Trijicon mimics the “three-dot” design

 

  •  founded in 1981 by Glyn Bindon as Armson USA
    – 1972 aeronautical engineer at Ford Motor Company
    – worked on the U.S. Navy’s F-8U Crusader
  • 1981 visited South Africa, met a guy who made gun sights
  •  Imported the Armson OEG
    – occluded-type gunsight, used tritium and fiber optics
    – manufactured in South Africa
    – popular for rifles and shotguns
  • 1985 reorganized as Trijicon
  • 1985 began manufacture of night sights
  • 1987 4×32 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG)
  • 1988 Trijicon Night Sights were adopted by the FBI
  • 1996 1×24 Reflex Sight
    – adopted by the U.S. Special Forces
    – for the SOPMOD M4 Carbine kit
  • 1998 AccuPoint 3-9×40 dual-illuminated riflescope
  • 2002 TriPower, first triple-illuminated reticle
  • September 2003, Glyn Bindon died in a plane crash in Alaska
  • 2007 launched Trijicon Red Dot
  • 2009 500,000th 4×32 ACOG scope produced
  • 2017 produced the 1,000,000th ACOG\

 

AmChar Wholesale

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since 1981

  • Wholesale
  • bulk items such as shot, safes, targets, powder, wads, promo ammunition, etc
  • large selection of law enforcement firearms, ammunition, duty gear, lights, vests, chemical sprays

May 3rd 2019 AmChar Georgia: LE Gun Range & Store opened

 a private store and gun range open only to active and retired Law Enforcement, Military and First Responders

AmChar Wholesale, Inc.
100 Airpark Drive
Rochester, NY 14624

1-800-333-0695

amchar.com

SCSA

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Steel Challenge (SCSA)

founded in 1981

  • by Mike Dalton and Mike Fichman
  • Seventy shooters competed in the first Steel Challenge
  •  2007 Dalton and Fichman sold Steel Challenge to United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA)

  • 8 stages with 5 steel targets on each

Steel Challenge Shooting Association
An Organization of:
United States Practical Shooting Association
1639 Lindamood Ln.
Burlington, WA 98233

https://scsa.org/

FN USA

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established in 1889
USA factory opened in 1981
Columbia, South Carolina

Belgium history

  • 1889 FN Herstal originated in the small city of Herstal, Belgium
    – co-founded by the major arms makers of the Liège region
  • 1897 entered into relationship with John Moses Browning
  • 1935 – 2017 Browning Hi-Power

FN USA history

  • 1981 FN Manufacturing LLC plant in Columbia, South Carolina
    – 200,000-square-foot
    – military division of FN
  • responsible for the production of
    – M16 rifles
    – M249 light machine guns
    – M240 machine guns
    – M2 machine guns
    – Mark-19 40 mm grenade launcher
  • 2014 FN America is the result of the merger of FN Manufacturing and FNH USA
  •  2015 U.S. military to produce 120,000 M4 and M4A1 carbines
    – $77-million
  • 2016 new retail store
    – Two Notch Road in Columbia, SC
  • 2020 contract to manufacture 167,000 M4 and M4A1 carbines
    – $119 million
  • FN America, LLC, is a U.S. subsidiary of FN Herstal, S.A.

Headquarters: McLean, Va

FN America, LLC
PO Box 9424
McLean, VA 22102

703-288-3500

fnamerica.com