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Prvi Partizan

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May 1928
Krcagovo, Serbia

  • 1928 Jakob Posinger
    – Originally called FOMU
  • 1935 moved to Uzice, Serbia
    – first privately owned factory in the Balkans
  • WWII facilities were heavily damaged
    – explosion killed more than 120 people
  • After the war – equipped the National Liberation Army
  • produce over 400 types of small arms ammo
  • unusual and rare cartridges
    –  8x56mmR
    – 7.92x33mm Kurtz
    – 7.65x53mm Argentine
    – 8mm Lebel

ППУ “PPU.” This is an abbreviation of the company’s name in Cyrillic letters

prvipartizan.com

MSSA

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Missouri Sport Shooting Association

since 1928

  • Missouri State Association for the National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • Missouri State Association for USA Shooting
  • Missouri State Association for  Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP)
  • Member of the Conservation Federation of Missouri.

Missouri Sport Shooting Association
6140 N. Wagontrail Rd.
Columbia, MO 65202-9658

https://www.missourisportshooting.org/

Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson

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December 28, 1927 –  January 13, 2020 (92)

  • – Born in Terre Haute, Indiana
  •  married to his beloved late wife Barbara for 57 years
  • served in the United States Navy in World War II
  • – 1975 founded The Gun Owners of America (GOA)
  • – founded Gun Owners of California
  • – 1966-1989 California state senator
    career was primarily focused on the preservation and protection of the Second Amendment
  • – Chair the Senate Fish and Game Committee
  • extraordinary hunter and dedicated to the conservation of California game
  • – NRA board of director
  • Author: “Confrontational Politics” 
  • – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Richardson

Ducks Unlimited

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 1927
Memphis, Tennessee

dedicated to the betterment of waterfowl and waterfowling in all of North America

 

  • 1927 started as an offshoot of the Boone & Crockett Club
  •  until 1930 operated as American Wild Fowlers
  • 1937 Ducks Unlimited (DU) was born
  • 2016  700,000 members

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
One Waterfowl Way
Memphis, Tennessee, 38120

1-800-45DUCKS

ducks.org

John Boyd

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1927-1997

  • U.S. Air Force Colonel
  • Boyd was the best fighter pilot in America and possibly the world
  • wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat
  • spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force’s premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-16
  • OODA loop (Observation, Orientation, Decision and Action)

Robert E. Peterson

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September 10, 1926 – March 23, 2007 (80)
California

  • Robert E. Peterson Publisher
  • Jan 1948 Hot Rod magazine started
  • Motor Trend
  • 1958 – Guns & Ammo Magazine
    – added a “Keep & Bear Arms” section
  • Ken Elliot
  • 1970s Petersen Motorama Cars of the Stars on Hollywood Boulevard
  • June 1994 Petersen Automotive Museum opened
  • 1996 sold his company for $450 million
  • 2000 the museum separated from the Natural History Museum
    – independent entity owned by the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation
  • Oct 8, 2010 donated 400 gun collection to the NRA National Firearms Museum
    – Display opened in October

SAAMI

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Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute

founded in 1926

an association of the nation’s leading manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and components. Founded at the request of the federal government and tasked with:

  • Creating and publishing industry standards for safety, interchangeability, reliability and quality
  • Coordinating technical data
  • Promoting safe and responsible firearms use

John David Dingell Jr.

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(born July 8, 1926)
– 1955 – 2015 United States House of Representatives
– 1968 Urged the NRA to fight for 2nd Amendment rights & the concept of the NRA ILA
– former board member of the National Rifle Association
– For many years, Dingell received an A+ rating from the NRA

  • Born in Colorado
  • Served in Congress for Michigan
  •  longest-ever serving member of Congress 

High Standard

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1926 – 2018

  • 1926 founded in Hamden, Connecticut
  • 1932 purchased by Carl Gustav Swebilius
  • During World War II supplied .22 pistols for pistol training
  • D developed a silent, flashless pistol for use by OSS agents behind enemy lines
  • 1962 – 1984 High Standard D-100
    hammerless, double-action derringers
  • 1968 acquired by the Leisure Group
  • 1976 relocated to East Hartford, Connecticut
  • February 1977 stopped production of long guns
  • 1978 Clem Confessore led management buyout from Leisure Group
  • December 1984, its assets were auctioned to Gordon Elliott
  • 1990 American Derringer obtained the rights to High Standard Derringer design
  • 1993 High Standard of Houston, Texas acquired the company assets and trademark Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
  • March 1994 first Houston manufactured pistols
  • 2000s acquired Interarms
  • 2001 Acquired Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
  • 2018 went out of business

High Standard Manufacturing Company