Category Archives: Resources

Chris Cheng

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1979

  • December 14, 1979
  • NRA News Commentator
  • Top Shot Season 4 Champion
  • 2007-2012 worked for Google
  • 2012 to pursue his professional marksman contract full-time
  • 2014 Author “Shoot to Win“
  • co-founder of Home for a Home
    – nonprofit collects from real estate brokers to build homes for needy
  • Top Shot Chris Cheng on CarbonTV
  • March 23, 2021 testified in a United States Senate
    – Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Constitutional and Common Sense Steps to Reduce Gun Violence”

http://www.topshotchris.com/

 

Kim Rhode

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July 16, 1979

  •  six-time Olympic medal winner
    – three gold medals
    – only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap
  • at age 13 won the World Championship
    – became captain of the All-American Team
  • 14 National Championship gold medals
  • 35 medals in international competitions
  • six-time national champion in double trap
  • most successful female shooter at the Olympics
  • only triple Olympic Champion
  • first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents
  • first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games
  • first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics
  • born in Whittier, California
  • 2013 son, Carter born

https://www.usashooting.org/12-the-team/usashootingteam/nationalteam/nationalshotgunteam/kimrhode

Tatiana Whitlock

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The Tactical Pixie 

TatianaWhitlock.com

A Girl And A Gun 
https://www.agirlandagun.org/

 

Magnum Research

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founded in 1979
Minnesota, Pennsylvania

  • 1979 Magnum Research’s founders, Jim Skildum and John Risdall in Pillager, MN
  • January 1983 filed a US patent for a gas-actuated pistol
  • 1985 – 1995 pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI)
  • 1995 – 1998  manufactured by Saco Defense in Saco, Maine
  • 1998 – 2009 manufactured by Israel again
    – 2005 IMI was privatized and renamed Israel Weapon Industries (IWI)
  • 2009 manufactured in Pillager, Minnesota
  • June 2010 purchased by Kahr Arms
  • 2015 moved to Pennsylvania
    –  620-acre
    – 40,000 square foot

Magnum Research
12602 33rd Avenue SW
Pillager, MN 56473

 

Kimber Manufacturing

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founded in 1979

  • 1950s Jack Warne started Sporting Arms (Sportco) in Adelaide, South Australia
  • 1968 Omark Industries purchased Sporting Arms
  • 1968 Jack Warne moved to Oregon
  • 1979 founded as “Kimber of Oregon” by Jack Warne in Clackamas, Oregon
    – accurate .22 long rifle caliber rifles
  • second manufacturing plant in Colton, Oregon
  • 1989, Kimber of Oregon sold to WTD Industries, Inc (Bruce Engel)
    – later went bankrupt
    – Kimber of Oregon’s tooling ended up in a Portland junkyard
  • 1990 Dan Cooper (fomer Kimber employee) founded Cooper Firearms of Montana
  • February 1991 Jack Warne founded the Warne Manufacturing Company
    – manufactured new rifle scope mounting system
  • Mid 1990s  Greg Warne & Les Edelman purchased the original tooling and partnered to found Kimber of America
    – Edelman forced Greg Warne out
  • 1996? – Kimber mves to Yonkers, New York
  • 2002 LAPD SWAT chose a Custom TLE II as standard issue
  • 2019 moved from Yonkers, NY to Troy, Alabama

Dawn Hillyer

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Anti-Stalking Advocate, Public Speaker
Founder of Hiding Hilda CCW Purses

  • 2013 – NRA Certified Refuse To Be A Victim® Instructor
  • 2015 – founded Hiding Hilda LLC
  • 2019 – VP of Women of the Indiana State and Rifle Association (Indiana Girls with Guns)

HidingHilda is where protection meets style! – HidingHilda, LLC
https://hidinghilda.com/

HidingHilda LLC was born out of the need for peace of mind, and the want of style. We carry the top brands of CCW Concealment purses as well as manufacture