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Auto-Ordnance

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Aug 1916

Auto-Ordnance

  • August 1916 founded by John T. Thompson
  • 1919 first short run production
  •  Model 1921 made by Colt
  • 1950s, Auto-Ordnance was owned and operated by Numrich Arms Corporation (N.A.C.)
  • 1999 bought by Kahr Arms

1437 Railroad Ave
Bridgeport, Connecticut

AATA

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American Amateur Trapshooting Association (AATA)
– Founded in 1915
– disbanded in 1919
– absorbed by the American Trapshooting Association (ATA)

 

Amateur Trapshooting Association is the National Governing Body for ATA-type trapshooting. The ATA hosts the Grand American Trapshooting tournament at Vandalia, Ohio in August each year. The “Grand” attracts the most shooters of any shooting event held in the USA.

Rex Applegate

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June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998

  • Learned marksmanship from his uncle Gus Peret
  • 1940 graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business Degree
  • 1940 join US Army
  • developed armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
  • 1941 recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS
  • close-combat coordinator for all clandestine missions  in WWII
  • personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
  • 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
  • 1980s designed the Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
  • 1994 inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame

Warren Page

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(1910 – Jan 22,1977)
– 1931 Graduated from Harvard
– WWII Lieutenant in Navy, Gunnery Instructor
– 1947-1974 Shooting Editor for Field & Stream
– 1949 Ruger’s first pistol.. serial Number 8, was “hand delivered” to Warren
– 1958 Awarded the Weatherby Big Game Trophy
– 1960 Created the First National Conference on the Shooting Sports
– Founded National Bench Rest Shooting Championship
– 1972 Director of National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
– first living American to be named to the Hunting Hall of Fame

 

Alice Bull

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1910 – Nov 26, 1998

  • 1910 – Born in Cincinnati, grew up in Port Angeles
  • 1917 she riddled a neighbor’s washtub with BBs and got a paddling
    – her father also gave her a .22-caliber rifle
  • 1920 she contracted polio, permanently affected her vocal cords
  • 1929 Captain of the women’s rifle team University of Washington
    – postal matches
  • 1935 – 1937 competed in the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio
  • 1936 placed 33rd out of 1,400 of the nation’s best competitors in the President’s Hundred-Rifle Match
    –  the only woman to place in to 100 until the mid-1960s
  • 1949 -1998 first woman elected to the National Rifle Association’s board of directors
  • 1961 first woman to earn the Army’s Distinguished Rifleman Badge
  • 1972 first woman to serve on the federal government’s National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice
  • 1983  Leland Bull Sr., died, her husband of 50 years,
  • 1998 she went to a hockey game the night before she died
  • a national rifle marksmanship trophy is awarded in her honor
    – The Alice Bull Trophy
    – awarded to the civilian having the highest aggregate score in the President’s Match and the National Trophy Individual Rifle Match
  • First woman ever elected to Honorary Life Membership in the NRA

Franklin Orth

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May 11, 1907 – Jan 4, 1970

  • 1928 bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 1931 law degree the University of Wisconsin Law School
  • World War II
    – rank of Colonel
    – served on the staff of General Frank Merrill in the jungles of Burma
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army.
  • 1959 – 1970 Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • 1964 supported banning the inexpensive, often low-quality, handguns known as Saturday night specials
    – supported limits on mail-order gun purchases
  • 1968 Gun Control Act

    – wrote in the American Rifleman
     “appear unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-abiding citizens, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”

“We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.”

ISSF

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International Shooting Sport Federation is the governing body of the Olympic Shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport events

Founded: 1907

International Shooting Sport Federation is the international federation controlling Olympic-type shooting in the world. The ISSF was known as the International Shooting Union (UIT) from 1907 until 1998. They sanction the World Shooting Championships every four years, the Separate World Championships in Trap and Skeet every two years and the ISSF World Cups and ISSF World Cup Finals every year. Their rules are used in Continental Games like the Pan American Games and Continental Championships like the European Shooting Championships or the Championships of the America.