Category Archives: Resources

Peggy Tartaro

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1955

  • 1979 joined Gun Week newspaper
    – held positions in circulation and advertising through 1989
    – published by the non-profit Second Amendment Foundation Inc
  • 1989 Joseph Tartaro (father) took over the then-new “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1989 associate editor “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1993 became Executive Editor
  • 1990- 2019 Editor of Women & Guns magazine
  • 1997 trustee of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • treasurer of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  •  managing editor of The Gun Mag.com
  • 2007  NRA’s Sybil Luddington Women’s Freedom Award
  • member of Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE, Inc.)
  • NRA Life Member
  • served for several years as a member of the National Rifle Association’s Women’s Policies Committee

ArmaLite

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 incorporated on October 1, 1954
California, Illinois, Arizona

  • October 1, 1954 a subdivision of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
    – located in Hollywood, California
    – AR-5 was adopted and designated the MA-1  Survival Rifle
  • 1954 Eugene Stoner became Chief Engineer
    – Stoner’s patents become much of ArmaLite’s catalog
  • 1955 AR-10
  • January 1959 trademarked AR-10 & AR-15 to Colt
  • 1959 AR-7 .22 caliber survival rifle
  • 1959 moved from Hollywood to Costa Mesa, California
  • 1961 Stoner left to work as a consultant for Colt
  • 1963 began development on the AR-18
  • 1967 production of the AR-18 began
    – Howa Machinery Company of Nagoya, Japan
    – Howa produced 3,927 AR-180s
    – between October 1970 and February 1974
  • 1968 set up pilot production in Costa Mesa
    – produced 1,171 AR-18s
    – produced 4,018 AR-180s
    – between July 1969 and June 1972
  • 1973  Japanese government halted all exports of AR-18 and AR-180 rifles
  • 1974 Sterling Armament Company of Dagenham, England, was licensed to produce AR180
    – produced 12,362 AR-180s
    – between the 1975 and 1983
    – 10,946 were exported to the United States
  • 1983 Armalite was sold to Elisco Tool Manufacturing Company, of the Philippines
    – Inventory, tooling, and machinery were sent from the U.S. plant to the Philippines
    – unable to carry out the AR-18 production
    – Ferdinand Marcos was overturned and went into exile
  • 1987 US offices closed
  • 1995 sold to Mark Westrom
  • 1995 Eagle was reincorporated as ArmaLite
    – Eagle Arms reduced to a division of ArmaLite
    – headquartered in Geneseo, Illinois
  • 2013 Westrom sold to Strategic Armory Corps (founded in 2011)
    –  AWC Silencers, Surgeon Rifles, Nexus Ammo, and McMillan Firearms
  •  2018 relocated to Phoenix Arizona

Armalite
6567 Santa Monica Boulevard
Hollywood, California

Strategic Armory Corps
Armalite 
525 E Pinnacle Peak Rd Ste 100
Phoenix, AZ 85024

623-780-1050

 

Brian Anse Patrick

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1954 – Dec 27, 2016

  • championship target shooter
  • CCW permit instructor
  • 2000 Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo
  • AmmoLand Contributor
  • Speaker – Gun Rights Policy Conference
  • Speaker – National Firearms Law Seminar
  • 2002 Author – The National Rifle Association and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage
    a landmark study of how negative bias in media coverage has actually benefited the NRA as a social movement.
  • Author – The Rise of the Anti-Media
    a study of how advocates for the concealed carry movement in the US have successfully used alternative forms of media to successfully combat the opposition of informational elites,

 



Dixie Gun Works

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founded in 1954
Union City, Tennessee

largest supplier of blackpowder shooting equipment, parts and antique guns in the world

 

  • 1931 Turner E. Kirkland began collecting guns
    – paid seventy five cents for a “dug up” 1849 Colt Pocket pistol
  • 1938 By the time Turner entered college he owned about one hundred guns
  • World War II two years in the Pacific
  • 1948 small ad in Muzzle Blasts magazine
  • Friday, April 10, 1954 arrived home from one of my jewelry selling trips to find that nearly all the guns and parts I had advertised had been sold
    – realized I just might be able to make a living at what had been a hobby
  • Dixie Gun Works started
  • 1954 Dixie Gun Works Catalog
    – 700 plus page publication
    – illustrates more than 10,000 items
  • 1955 Dixie Kentucky Rifle first production made muzzleloading rifle
  • 1955  purchased a 4000 square foot building
  • 1960 built a 12,000 square foot building
  • 1968 moved to its current location 30,000 square foot
  • 1974 added on 46,000 square feet
  • 1978 Dixie Gun Works Blackpowder Annual
    – 75,000 sent out
  • Dixie Gun Works Old Car Museum
    – 1850’s period log cabin gun shop
  • July 26, 1997 Turner Kirkland died (77)

Dixie Gun Works
1412 W Reelfoot Ave
Union City, Tennessee 38261

731 885 0440

dixiegunworks.com

NASGW

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National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW)

since 1954

BRINGING SHOOTING SPORTS BUYERS AND SELLERS TOGETHER

The NASGW is the organizer and sponsor of the industry’s former Hunting Show, now known as the NASGW Annual Meeting/Expo Event. This annual event provides an unmatched educational, marketing and communications opportunity for the hunting and shooting sports wholesaler, manufacturer and sales professional.

  • 1953 organized as the Sporting Goods Jobbers Association
  • 1954 1st incorporated
  • 1962 name was officially changed

The NASGW serves as a liaison with other sporting goods associations, including

  • the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA)
  • The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
  • The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation(CSF)
  • The National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • The National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses
  • The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW).

National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers
One Parkview Plaza, Suite 800
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 USA
(630) 596-9006

http://www.nasgw.org

Bill Wilson

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Nov. 4, 1953

  • 1976 started shooting IPSC
    USPSA membership number is “CL-15”
  • 1977 started Wilson’s Gun Shop building 1911s in Berryville, Arkansas
    optimized pistols with aftermarket parts from noted gunsmiths
  • 1983 he was making his own parts
  • 1996 began building complete handguns
  • 1996 co-founder of the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
    IDPA number is “CL-01.”
  • 2000 the company bought “Scattergun Technologies”
  • 2005 gave up formal competition
  • on Instagram (@wilsoncombat)

Wilson Combat

https://www.wilsoncombat.com/

ASAC

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American Society of Arms Collectors

1953

  • 1953 – Founded
  • Membership is limited to a maximum of 250 active members, and membership is by invitation only

permanent national organization for persons interested in the collection, research, study, and preservation of arms, armor, and accessories and accouterments; to establish and promote standards and ethics in research and dissemination of information pertaining to the history of arms and armor; and to promote and further the preparation, publication and distribution of scholarly literature pertaining to the development and history of arms and armor.

HTTPS://AMERICANSOCIETYOFARMSCOLLECTORS.ORG/

American Society of Arms Collectors
P.O. Box 2172
Noblesville, IN 46061-2172

 

Lipsey’s

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formed in 1953

  • 1953 original name of the company was S & S Wholesale Sporting Good
  • 1977 purchased by Richard Lipsey
  • 1980’s Lipsey’s began concentrating full-time on its firearms distribution
  • 1993 Lipsey’s moved from downtown Baton Rouge to New Orleans
  • 2002 Laurie Lipsey Aronson took over as President
  • 2006 expanded its facilities