1875 – 1919
New York City

• October 12, 1839 Charles Daly was born in New York City
• 1875  began importing firearms into New York City
  – Charles Daly and August Shoverling
  – from the city of Suhl in what was then Prussia (Russia)
• 1887 Shoverling and Daly were joined by a third partner named Joseph Gales
• 1899 Charles Daly died suddenly
  – Charles Howard Daly (son) took his place
• 1919 the partnership was sold to Henry Modell
• 1927 sold to the Walzer family
  – owned Sloan’s Sporting Goods in Ridgefield, Connecticut
• 1976 Sloan’s sold the Charles Daly trademark to
  – Outdoor Sports Headquarters Inc. (OSHI)
  – sporting goods wholesaler in Dayton, Ohio
• 1996, OSHI was sold to
  – Jerry’s Sport Center
  – firearm wholesaler in Forest City, Pennsylvania
• 1996 bought by KBI, Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  – “Charles Daly, The Shooting Sports Specialist”
• 2008, KBI formed Charles Daly Defense
  – a new division to build Charles Daly Defense AR-15
• January 29, 2010 Charles Daly and KBI were going out of business
• January 2012, Charles Daly and CD Defense
  – announced their return to the US market
  – with Trans World Arms LLC of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• September 2012 Charles Daly trademark acquired by Samco Global Arms, Inc. (SGAI) in Miami, Florida
• 2017 the Charles Daly trademark bought by Chiappa Firearms