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Sellier & Bellot

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1825
Prague, Czechoslovakia

  • 1825 Louis Sellier & Jean Maria Nicolaus Bellot established a percussion cap factory in Prague
  • ready-made paper cartridges
  • pinfire shotshells
  • 1870 Louis Sellier died
  • 1872 Sellier family bought out Bellot
  • plants in Prussia and Latvia
  • 1893 trademark appeared
  • WWI all of their production
  • After WWI leading ammo supplier to their new country’s army and police
  • 1936 moved to Vlašim
  • 1939 Nazis took over the commpany
  • 1940 Soviets took the factory and used their ammo against the Nazis
  • S&B nationalized by Czechoslovakia after WWII
  • 1992 S&B became a joint-stock company
  • 2009 acquired by CBC (Magtech)

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Gen. Ambrose Burnside

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(May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881)
– 1843-1847 United States Military Academy – graduated 18th in a class of 47
– 1847–1853 Mexican–American War (1st Lieutenant)
– 1853 manufactured the Burnside carbine
– 1861 – 1865 Civil War, Major General
– 1866-1869 Governor of Rhode Island
– 1871 NRA’s first President
– 1875-1881 U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
– His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns

Harriet Tubman

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March 1822 – March 10, 1913

  • Araminta “Minty” Ross
  • Born into slavery
  • 1844 – Married John Tubman
  • changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage
  • 1849 – escaped and made 13 missions to rescue 70+ slaves
  • Tubman carried a small revolver, and was not afraid to use it
  • 1858 – met abolitionist John Brown and became “General Tubman” when she helped him plan his raid (that he was killed for)
  • 1859 – Purchased property in Auburn, New York
  • 1860 – her last rescue mission
  • Civil War worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy
  • 1863 – The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war
  • June 1 & 2, 1863 – Tubman guided the raid at Combahee Ferry wich liberated 700+ slaves
  • 1865 She returned home to NY
  • 1869 – Her biography was published – Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
  • 1886 – Volume 2 was published – Harriet, the Moses of her People
  • 1889 – Congress passed and President William McKinley finally approved a $20 per month pension for some of her efforts during the Civil War
  • 1896 – keynote speaker at first meeting of  National Federation of Afro-American Women
  • 1908 – Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged  opened on her NY property
  • 1913 – She was buried with semi-military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, NY
  • 1937 – Her grave marker was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • 1999 – Her grave was added to National Register of Historic Places

“There was one of two things I had a right to”, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other”

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Benjamin F. Butler

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November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893
Massachusetts

  •  criminal defense lawyer
  • major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • September 27, 1862, Butler formed the first African American regiment in the US Army, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard
  • 1869 – founded the United States Cartridge Company
  • leadership role in the impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson
  • 1882 33rd Governor of Massachusetts
    – January 4, 1883 – January 3, 1884
  • coauthored the Civil Rights Act of 1875

Remington Arms

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founded in 1816
Ilion, New York

Remington is the oldest gun maker in the US

 

  • largest US producer of shotguns and rifles
  • developed or adopted more cartridges than any other gun maker or ammunition manufacturer in the world
  • 1816 Remington built his own gun at age 23
    – he entered a shooting match & finished second
    – his  gun impressed other & he received orders
    – he had officially entered the gunsmithing business
  • 1816 founded by Eliphalet Remington
  • 1828, he moved to Ilion
  • March 7, 1888 Remington family sold to owners the
    Union Metallic Cartridge Company
    and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
  • 1888 renamed Remington Arms Company
    the Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut became the Remington ammunition plant
  • 1912 Remington and Union Metallic Cartridge Company combined into  Remington UMC
  • 1915 Ilion factory was expanded
  • Remington was purchased by DuPont
  • 1934  purchased the Peters Cartridge Company
    – headstamps  “R-P”  for Remington-Peters
  • World War II built the M1903A3 Springfield bolt-action rifle
  • 1962 Remington introduced the Model 700 bolt-action rifle
  • 1986 closed Bridgeport, Connecticut ammo factory
    – moved to Lonoke, Arkansas
  • 1987 built clay target factory in Athens, Georgia
  • 1993 DuPont sold Remington
  • June 2007 Cerberus Capital Management bought Remington Arms
    – Renamed to Freedom Group
  • December 2007, Remington Arms bought Marlin Firearms
  • October 2009 bought Advanced Armament Corporation
  • 2015, the Freedom Group was renamed as Remington Outdoor Company
  • March 2018 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
  • July 28, 2020 filed again for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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