SureFire

began in 1969

  • 1969 Dr. John Matthews founded the Newport Corporation
  • October 17, 1979 formed company Laser Products
  • 1979 introduced the first commercially available laser sighting system
    – LPC Model 7 mounted to a Colt Trooper .357 Magnum revolver
  • 1984 Summer Olympics
    –  laser sight-equipped shotguns to the Los Angeles SWAT team
  • 1984  science-fiction film The Terminator
  • 1985 Model 300 WeaponLight
  • 1988  Model 6C
    –  two lithium 123A batteries
    –  60 lumens (six times the industry standard)
  • 2001 Laser Products changed to SureFire LLC
  • 2002 Suppressor Division
    – redefine suppressor technology, materials and construction
    – to advance the state-of-the art
  • 2011 Mil-Spec, high-capacity magazines
    – 60rd & 100rd

SureFire, LLC
18300 Mount Baldy Circle
Fountain Valley, CA

surefire.com

SIONICS

Studies In the Operational Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion

founded in 1966

  • 1966 founded by Mitchell WerBell
  • producing firearm suppressors for the M16 and M14
  • January 1968 first patents
  • 1969 Gordon B. Ingram hired as chief engineer

Sionics
1655 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

  • 1970 They created a manufacturing corporation called Military Armament Corporation, and merged it with Quantum and SIONICS

Yankee Hill Machine

1951
Massachusetts

  • 1951 founded by Wallace Judd & James Graham in Yankee Hill, Massachusetts
  • 1960s government contract to design and produce cleaning rods for the M16
  • 1980s son Jay took over
  • 2000s began manufacturing suppressors
  • 2008 YNH-15 first complete rifle
  • 2013 Grandsons took over

Yankee Hill Machine
412 Main St.
Easthampton, Massachusetts

yhm.net